I only have pitty for you poor Statesmen (americans). Though I would say it is a problem of your legal system, not the patent office. The rest of the world actually agrees on the fact that ideas/algorithms are not patentable...
For engineers to get a 'license' to build a bridge, they need to go to university. And if you think they will start building bridges right after that, then stop dreaming. The same for Software engineers (university term for coders, IMHO), if you wanna build that Airport Information system, you have to go to university and learn your shit first. What scares me, is the _extremely_ poor quality of Microsoft Education that is out there for free and people can sit in, marvel at MS-proprietary Visual Basic Construction Blocks and actually getting away with this as education....
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If I do your homework, will I get your diploma too?
I only have pitty for you poor Statesmen (americans).
Though I would say it is a problem of your legal system, not the patent office. The rest of the world actually agrees on the fact that ideas/algorithms are not patentable...
this link is an interview with one of Oracle's developers and what they think Linux is lacking.
They still say that raw devices have advantages...
The linux kernel should be capable of handling files longer than 2GB, if you meet the following requirements:
- your software (oracle, in this case) uses the 64bit versions of read, write, stat etc.
- your filesystem is capable of handling large files.
Now if you are going to use oracle, you should use
partitions directly. It just bypasses the filesystem and uses the disk in raw mode.
The united states decided to go metric in 1979, AFAIK. The problem is nobody ever bothered doing anything about it yet...
For engineers to get a 'license' to build a bridge, they need to go to university.
And if you think they will start building bridges right after that, then stop dreaming.
The same for Software engineers (university term for coders, IMHO), if you wanna build that Airport Information system, you have to go to university and learn your shit first.
What scares me, is the _extremely_ poor quality of Microsoft Education that is out there for free and people can sit in, marvel at MS-proprietary Visual Basic Construction Blocks and actually getting away with this as education....