This guy did homebrew translations of several japanese-only nes games--I hope he gets sued for that as some sort of poetic justice for patenting this new game concept.
That isn't what IP laws were written for in the first place--they used to require that you register all work, and there was a fee to do so. In answer to your problem, you could have an X month grace period where as long as he registers it in X months, he's fine.
"Slashdot" isn't a single person. Do you also get confused at election time when "America" somehow shows interest in more than one candidate? Do you yell at NBC when both "Burger King" and "McDonalds" advertise on the same show?
Feynman worked closely with Stephen Wolfram. Feynman did a lot of work on reversible computing. Feynman managed a group the computing center during the development of the A-Bomb. But go ahead, read some random blog from someone who wrote a web widget that shows the weather.
I don't agree that we killed more Iraqis than Saddam (not even close), but Bush has definitely killed more Americans in his term than terrorists have (referring to our troop casualties).
Instead, he took that as an opportunity to criticize the president, to his face, in front of all his staff and in front of the media. And there wasn't a damn thing the president could do. And the media almost completely ignored it; the next day the "bush twins" skit was all over front pages everywhere, and Colbert was a tiny side note except on sites like Digg, reddit, and Slashdot.
This would be fore the company post bankrupcy; part of the reason SCO has such a low market cap is the risk at any moment that SCO could go completely bankrupt and all assets would be surrendered to debtors. If this is for the company *post* bankruptcy, that isn't a risk.
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Thanks for leaving out the web, done at CERN (in Europe, where there is no software patent law... oh wait I see).
The comment is the subject
Yeah, and he doesn't care about their IP rights, but he was first in line to snatch up a patent on this crap.
If you win, you always get your legal fees paid; provided you offered a reasonable settlement and it was rejected, or provided you were the defendant.
This guy did homebrew translations of several japanese-only nes games--I hope he gets sued for that as some sort of poetic justice for patenting this new game concept.
I'm fairly certain "Noam Chomsky" was a facebook gimmick account--which would make it even more interesting if he were pulled in.
That isn't what IP laws were written for in the first place--they used to require that you register all work, and there was a fee to do so. In answer to your problem, you could have an X month grace period where as long as he registers it in X months, he's fine.
Fresh content offering even a microscopic mote of originality? By that standard the article here fails.
>For example, this comment, it could be considered IP, now should I have to pay essentially a fee on that?
No, but it should slip into the public domain unless you do.
Obama needs some tweaks.
My open source Visual Basic extension for Word 97 has been rejected 3 times already; I'm gonna try one last time.
"Slashdot" isn't a single person. Do you also get confused at election time when "America" somehow shows interest in more than one candidate? Do you yell at NBC when both "Burger King" and "McDonalds" advertise on the same show?
>Depending on the kind of hash, I guess...
Exactly; if "the identity function" or "gzip" is your hash function, you're gonna have problems.
Feynman worked closely with Stephen Wolfram. Feynman did a lot of work on reversible computing. Feynman managed a group the computing center during the development of the A-Bomb. But go ahead, read some random blog from someone who wrote a web widget that shows the weather.
Narrated on his deathbed? I heard it was narrated through several drumming sessions, and he went on to do several other books after it.
I don't agree that we killed more Iraqis than Saddam (not even close), but Bush has definitely killed more Americans in his term than terrorists have (referring to our troop casualties).
We allow patenting manufacturing processes for chemicals that don't depend on the device, how is that different?
> a mechanical device isn't maths
Please justify this.
The same exact thing can be said for physical inventions.
Maybe it "accidentally" ignited so that they could get rid of damning evidence.
>The information in that email is NOT accurate, since no part of the source code has ever been in the location they mention.
That location contains a hash of the source code, which is a derivative; if they had the source zipped up, the email would be just as accurate.
If they aren't boycotting the games already, then there is very little chance they would have any real concerns about Chinese human rights issues.
This would be fore the company post bankrupcy; part of the reason SCO has such a low market cap is the risk at any moment that SCO could go completely bankrupt and all assets would be surrendered to debtors. If this is for the company *post* bankruptcy, that isn't a risk.