Patent something domestically and someone in a country with cheap labour will copy your idea and outproduce you.
...and they will not be able to sell it in the country where your patent was granted, thet's the point.
Perhaps you want to do the exploitation yourself? Or perhaps it is that a (*yuck*) independent country is doing it. No one is forced to respect *your* monopolies...
Saying that Microsoft Word is a viral format because you have to use it as a common medium of exchange is equivalent to saying that the English language is viral because you have to use it to communicate when that is the only language spoken by another party.
Hell yes, English is viral. Not because you will speak it to a native, but because English speakers tend to expect others to learn their language, instead of going halfway and learn something themselves.
Granted, this has happened with French and before that (c. 1500) with Spanish.
Maybe we could all give Esperanto a try...
I believe the issue of language has not yet been brought up. I want to type German, English, Spanish, Danish and Esperanto on the same keyboard. It's really not difficult, only we've decided to keep the typewriter-I'm-not-ever-gonna-sell-this-outside-of -my-country layouts.
Why have a Ñ key when we could use ~n, for example?
I want to see something regarding the press ban. If you mean that the government owned the footage and didn't release it, they're not obligated. If you mean supression of privately owned footage after the 50's, I want to see a source.
Aren't they? God, you're such a sheep. If "the governmnent" owns the footage, then YOU own it. They're obligated unless they have a hugely important reason not to do so, not just to cover their asses. What do you get in exchange for your freedoms, their protection or their mistrust and irresponsibility?
if Microsoft does patent some technology, then our plan is to [...] find prior art that would render the patent useless.
Which means a lawsuit.
Not exactly, IamDefinitelyNotALawyerInFactImNotEvenAmerican, but generally, patent offices have this period where they listen for people claiming prior art before the patent is issued.
Besides, I, for one, am expecting Sun to go medieval on Bill's ass over this stuff and Java....
Somebody has far too much faith that the Patent Office will not issue a patent for that which has prior art. Sorry, but it doesn't look that way from here. The PTO may well grant a patent, even though it really shouldn't. Then what?
Surely they cannot indict you for opening a black box with an uninteresting name on it, but if the box says "Secret Government Property" sure they can say you knew what you were doing...and it's behind bars you go. That's some bureaucratic way to cover their asses.
You know...I have this idea for IPV6...you set up a server, then write a client...people register whatever songs they have in MP3...then...oh, nevermind.
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You know, they just introduced them here in Mexico too. Only I think...isn't it a very fancy way of saying "bills made of plastic"?
Imagine the coolness of the new solution if they just said: "we're replacing the current celulose bills for plastic ones"
Well, calling live concert CD's piracy is totally misunderstanding the point... It's likely that the performers are getting paid royalties, and the performers usually hold the rights to their own music, otherwise they could not even perform it.
I see the RIAA has adoctrinated most of the people to believe otherwise.
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Like *injecting plutonium on human beings* kind of nice?
Perhaps you want to do the exploitation yourself? Or perhaps it is that a (*yuck*) independent country is doing it. No one is forced to respect *your* monopolies...
So that's why Apple made the round mouse originally?
At 1200DPI or more, you can use inkjet, the problem is that it doesn't get cheap....photo paper is necessary.
So we males have a harder time reading what's on the screen because we have 20% less language skills. C'mon...this is silly, get over it.
Because the whole article in one file is bigger, then it would take less people to slashdot it.
Hell yes, English is viral. Not because you will speak it to a native, but because English speakers tend to expect others to learn their language, instead of going halfway and learn something themselves.
Granted, this has happened with French and before that (c. 1500) with Spanish. Maybe we could all give Esperanto a try...
Windex...oh God! it already happened!
Because Gnome sucks and Sendmail is really full of security holes, better keep KDE and add Postfix or something.
And, as collective punishment...put every Caldera Linux developer to do technical support for WinXP in your Windows department.
We're doomed.
I once broke my cup holder, however, I always thought it was not quite tough....never figured out what the 24X stood for....
Well...you just did. Trying to help Linus?
Why have a Ñ key when we could use ~n, for example?
Aren't they? God, you're such a sheep. If "the governmnent" owns the footage, then YOU own it. They're obligated unless they have a hugely important reason not to do so, not just to cover their asses. What do you get in exchange for your freedoms, their protection or their mistrust and irresponsibility?
Old news and from Sweden! What do I care whether ABBA...? oh, wait
C'mon, Slashdot is for kids too!!!
Which means a lawsuit.
Not exactly, IamDefinitelyNotALawyerInFactImNotEvenAmerican, but generally, patent offices have this period where they listen for people claiming prior art before the patent is issued.
Besides, I, for one, am expecting Sun to go medieval on Bill's ass over this stuff and Java....
Exactly! Can you say "One Click Shopping"
Surely they cannot indict you for opening a black box with an uninteresting name on it, but if the box says "Secret Government Property" sure they can say you knew what you were doing...and it's behind bars you go. That's some bureaucratic way to cover their asses.
You know...I have this idea for IPV6...you set up a server, then write a client...people register whatever songs they have in MP3...then...oh, nevermind.
Imagine the coolness of the new solution if they just said: "we're replacing the current celulose bills for plastic ones"
I see the RIAA has adoctrinated most of the people to believe otherwise.