How could it be superfluous? What magical mechanism would make people give up their source code absent copyright? Seems more likely to me that it would be an even more closely guarded secret for many projects.
Those procedures are in place because the vast majority of IT workers are simpering script-monkey morons laboring under bureaucracy put in place by self-important CYA management types who wouldn't know how to make an actual decision to save their kids' lives.
There just isn't enough actual talent to go around. You work in a system designed (poorly) to compensate for that fact. The fact that you posted AC tells me you already know to be ashamed of it.
It's shocking how your argument can be immediately turned right back on you - with the addition that you aren't actually delivering a browser, just talking out of your ass.
Slashdot's obsession with watering down the meaning of word "evil" until it is useless continues. And surprise! Four of the five point are "evil" because they involve money. Never saw that one coming around here.
No, no one is thinking of any of these things. That's why we have these Slashdot peer reviews, so you unsung geniuses can poke obvious holes in the plans of professionals.
I miss the good old days when you could invent something by waiting for someone else to do all the hard work and then taking it for your own. Inventing is supposed to be easy!
Do we really need to play a game of alternate history to get the Slashdot crowd into a masturbatory frenzy over why patents are evil? I'm pretty sure the populists are already frothy enough around here.
Don't bother injecting rationality into this discussion. Slashdot posts these articles to get the fanboys arguing and up their pageviews. You'll contradict their wishes unless you incoherently rage about why your opinions are objectively superior.
The arrogance in asserting your responsibility to that which you have no right to be responsible is staggering, but expected from a typical Slashdotter. It's a basic disconnect between belief and reality. You simply have no place in making such a decision for anyone but yourself.
Feel free to whine about it all you want, of course. Just save the hyperbolic talk for someone who doesn't see through it.
Yeah, and parents nanny their children. That doesn't change the fact that you don't know best for anyone else. You not only have no responsibility to save my parent's privacy, you have no right to be part of the equation.
Why would you assume these people are liberals? And well-intentioned at that? They seem more like... well honestly, teenagers. Not really cohesive, politically speaking, just raging for the sake of raging. Not really caring about the harm they're causing because they've never had responsibility or faced consequences. Basking in the attention they would never get any other way. Shit like that.
You have your emotions tied up in something so ridiculous? That's fascinating. I can't imagine caring so much about something so pointless, and with negativity besides.
Yeah, I know - I'd have to be shortsighted to not go along with accepted Slashdot wisdom. They're totally running scared, not at all developing and releasing products. I'm such a fool for not just getting in line with the one true Google way.
And that's not a rectangle. For one, there's a third dimension. But don't let actual facts get in the way of a good anti-Apple rant when you can just dismiss me without even understanding a simple shape. Which isn't to defend the issue here, but I'm not the German court, friend. I'm just the one laughing at all the Slashdotters running to defend anything vaguely Android-related and bash anything positive for Apple.
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Where do you think that tax money would come from, exactly? Would "the corporations" suddenly become altruistic and absorb that cost?
You can't soak a fictional entity. Only individuals pay taxes in the end.
Whereas overpaying overprivileged labor looks bad on paper and in the real world.
How could it be superfluous? What magical mechanism would make people give up their source code absent copyright? Seems more likely to me that it would be an even more closely guarded secret for many projects.
Those procedures are in place because the vast majority of IT workers are simpering script-monkey morons laboring under bureaucracy put in place by self-important CYA management types who wouldn't know how to make an actual decision to save their kids' lives.
There just isn't enough actual talent to go around. You work in a system designed (poorly) to compensate for that fact. The fact that you posted AC tells me you already know to be ashamed of it.
It's shocking how your argument can be immediately turned right back on you - with the addition that you aren't actually delivering a browser, just talking out of your ass.
That's a wonderful way to get automatons with no interest in doing a good job, just in getting their paycheck.
Which, incidentally, is just fine by me because I make my money cleaning up the inevitable messes left by such policies.
Slashdot's obsession with watering down the meaning of word "evil" until it is useless continues. And surprise! Four of the five point are "evil" because they involve money. Never saw that one coming around here.
No, no one is thinking of any of these things. That's why we have these Slashdot peer reviews, so you unsung geniuses can poke obvious holes in the plans of professionals.
I miss the good old days when you could invent something by waiting for someone else to do all the hard work and then taking it for your own. Inventing is supposed to be easy!
Do we really need to play a game of alternate history to get the Slashdot crowd into a masturbatory frenzy over why patents are evil? I'm pretty sure the populists are already frothy enough around here.
That argument was sort of true 2 years ago. It hasn't been since, though, except in the minds of people who aren't actually playing the games.
Are you the keeper of the one true motivation, brother? Should we all check our opinions with you first?
Don't bother injecting rationality into this discussion. Slashdot posts these articles to get the fanboys arguing and up their pageviews. You'll contradict their wishes unless you incoherently rage about why your opinions are objectively superior.
The arrogance in asserting your responsibility to that which you have no right to be responsible is staggering, but expected from a typical Slashdotter. It's a basic disconnect between belief and reality. You simply have no place in making such a decision for anyone but yourself.
Feel free to whine about it all you want, of course. Just save the hyperbolic talk for someone who doesn't see through it.
Yeah, and parents nanny their children. That doesn't change the fact that you don't know best for anyone else. You not only have no responsibility to save my parent's privacy, you have no right to be part of the equation.
How could one be anonymously social? Seems like anyone who craves that can just use IRC over Tor.
No one "deserves" your protection. You aren't their nanny, no matter how certain you are that you know best.
Is it fair to call the optards?
Why would you assume these people are liberals? And well-intentioned at that? They seem more like... well honestly, teenagers. Not really cohesive, politically speaking, just raging for the sake of raging. Not really caring about the harm they're causing because they've never had responsibility or faced consequences. Basking in the attention they would never get any other way. Shit like that.
Well let us not forget: it's also not terribly likely to happen.
That's just Slashdot's general stance. Has nothing to do with patents or anything specific. Nerds just hate winners.
You have your emotions tied up in something so ridiculous? That's fascinating. I can't imagine caring so much about something so pointless, and with negativity besides.
Minimal innovation? Any possible way you could justify saying that? Looks to me like innovation is happening so frequently we consider it commonplace.
And in that same vein, just what have you invented lately anyway? Can you live up to your own standard?
So like... a web license? Totally not retarded at all.
Yeah, I know - I'd have to be shortsighted to not go along with accepted Slashdot wisdom. They're totally running scared, not at all developing and releasing products. I'm such a fool for not just getting in line with the one true Google way.
And that's not a rectangle. For one, there's a third dimension. But don't let actual facts get in the way of a good anti-Apple rant when you can just dismiss me without even understanding a simple shape. Which isn't to defend the issue here, but I'm not the German court, friend. I'm just the one laughing at all the Slashdotters running to defend anything vaguely Android-related and bash anything positive for Apple.