It's way cheaper to set your patent lawyers on a search for related patents and prior art than it is to fight them (in fact, that's a primary part of the application process).
And by waiting you're just giving your competitors all the time they need to eat your lunch before you dare put out your first product. They'll be filing all sorts of patents on the thing you wanted to make, and resetting your 20-year grousing clock every time they click "send to USPTO".
Either Cox is misquoted, or he's being a balloon about intellectual property.
I don't have time to read TFA or TFP, but I'm guessing that their implementation does not fit entirely within your list of suggestions.
If they're claiming everything, they were probably wrong in the first place, since your description would have relied on a lot of stuff that was public knowledge anyway.
But most patents are overbroad and depend on prior patents and common knowledge. It will probably come down to a detail that nobody has included before.
That's what he said. And he would have been right. If he hadn't had competitors who added features that threatened his sales.
The more features you have, the more programmers you need. Especially when you have shitty strategies for integrating functions, reusing code, automating tests, and fixing bugs.
Bubba couldn't find Osama any better than W or Obama can.
The one time we got decent intel on his location, we sent half a dozen cruise missiles and levelled the compound.
Unfortunately, Osama was leaving just as the missiles were launching, so he didn't die.
Don't ever kid yourself thinking that Liberals don't fight. It's how this country was founded, it's how all of the wars we won were won, and it's the only thing keeping Conservatives from thinking they can institute martial law whenever they're elected.
I've never put Linux on a computer that was worth more than a couple hundred dollars. Some cost more, but had been used for years as Windows machines, and were therefore either going to be junked or turned into Linux boxes; i.e., effectively free. The Linux itself cost the price of a few minutes of broadband download time, plus one or two burnable discs. Since I have a stack of several dozen blanks left out of a hundred CD-R's that I bought several years ago, those are essentially free as well.
Really, the most expensive part of Linux for me so far is explaining to you how cheap it really is if you don't go out of your way to throw money at it.
And I don't actually have a problem with this. If they made that money externally and they keep it external and they spend it externally, it's not really any of our business.
What's really fucking us over is the massive break W gave corporations on outsourced payroll. It exported jobs as well as cash, and gave us nothing in return.
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Both were cut from the curriculum to make room for Creationism and Bible Study.
Okay, now I've had time (I had to pee), and no, they're not the same thing. Some of the claims will succeed.
Though what's more interesting is that they call their software box "UNIX-derived".
Which may be a problem for Linus Torvalds...and a boon to SCO...
So Vint Cerf blames Al Gore for the Internet, too....
One reason that raising the length of patent protection, rather than reducing it, was a crime against the people.
That's fucking stupid.
It's way cheaper to set your patent lawyers on a search for related patents and prior art than it is to fight them (in fact, that's a primary part of the application process).
And by waiting you're just giving your competitors all the time they need to eat your lunch before you dare put out your first product. They'll be filing all sorts of patents on the thing you wanted to make, and resetting your 20-year grousing clock every time they click "send to USPTO".
Either Cox is misquoted, or he's being a balloon about intellectual property.
I was going to ask why that's modded Funny, then I realized that yeah, it is.
We should be building network protocols with variable-length addressing, and getting rid of fixed constraints entirely.
Though you should have said "2048". Like the letters 'k' and 'q', it just sounds funnier when used in a joke.
The question is: why is it growing at all?
Every new device should be IPv6 compatible.
Who's making IPv4 crap? And why aren't we charging them $100 a number?
It depends on what they're claiming.
I don't have time to read TFA or TFP, but I'm guessing that their implementation does not fit entirely within your list of suggestions.
If they're claiming everything, they were probably wrong in the first place, since your description would have relied on a lot of stuff that was public knowledge anyway.
But most patents are overbroad and depend on prior patents and common knowledge. It will probably come down to a detail that nobody has included before.
He dropped out of college and now he goes around volunteering at food banks and health clinics.
imagine what I could DO if my little brain could wrap itself around the complexity of this massive OS...
Yeh. And then add in the several hundred parallel cores in your video card...
I'm pretty good at wonky stuff and I just sort of stare at the computer sometimes wondering how to fill it up.
Most of them are dead or living in Scottish castles or on private islands. /. is for people who use keyboards.
That's what he said. And he would have been right. If he hadn't had competitors who added features that threatened his sales.
The more features you have, the more programmers you need. Especially when you have shitty strategies for integrating functions, reusing code, automating tests, and fixing bugs.
The problem isn't that they were missing, it's that President Clinton's aides were afraid to say they'd lost them.
True. The President's codes are useless unless they're delivered by the President. And Clinton wasn't starting any nukular wars anyway. He's no Bush.
Bubba couldn't find Osama any better than W or Obama can.
The one time we got decent intel on his location, we sent half a dozen cruise missiles and levelled the compound.
Unfortunately, Osama was leaving just as the missiles were launching, so he didn't die.
Don't ever kid yourself thinking that Liberals don't fight. It's how this country was founded, it's how all of the wars we won were won, and it's the only thing keeping Conservatives from thinking they can institute martial law whenever they're elected.
Dude. TMI.
Privacy regulates you!
In 5 years without regulation your name would be Oracle_User_Entity_e45feb7a895abe88:0.1.
You want this now.
I wonder if anyone's patented that business model.
1. Propose sweeping legislation affecting profitability of large corporations.
2. ???
3. Profit!
That's not what "regulate" means.
Stock up on toilet paper, though.
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The computer they're running on does.
I've never put Linux on a computer that was worth more than a couple hundred dollars. Some cost more, but had been used for years as Windows machines, and were therefore either going to be junked or turned into Linux boxes; i.e., effectively free. The Linux itself cost the price of a few minutes of broadband download time, plus one or two burnable discs. Since I have a stack of several dozen blanks left out of a hundred CD-R's that I bought several years ago, those are essentially free as well.
Really, the most expensive part of Linux for me so far is explaining to you how cheap it really is if you don't go out of your way to throw money at it.
foreign profits
And I don't actually have a problem with this. If they made that money externally and they keep it external and they spend it externally, it's not really any of our business.
What's really fucking us over is the massive break W gave corporations on outsourced payroll. It exported jobs as well as cash, and gave us nothing in return.
That movie was about the internet?
Being in the minority on /. bothers you.
I'm pretty sure Linux kernels don't cost $1k a pop.