Patents are awarded to people who invent something new even if they are obvious.
This may be the case, but it's certanly not the intent of the patent system. Patents should NEVER be granted if they are obvious to someone 'reasonably skilled in the art'. I would think that includes the engineers at 3dfx, ATi, Matrox, Diamond, Intel....
3dfx had a jump on NVIDIA, time-wise, but NVIDIA managed to patent this technology first. True, I am a pro-nvidia guy all the way, but i think in this case their actions are totally justifiable.
If this is the case, then the idea is not patentable, since it was developed by another person or persons reasonably skilled in the art. Either company could show prior art, even if it was only in their test labs.
I have three machines, all with different motherboard types and/or manufacturers (BX6-2, BP6, P3B-F) and have never experienced ANY problems under XFree86-3.3.6, or more recently, XFree-4.0. Check your hardware.
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The GPL makes no such requirement. It only requires that if you REDISTRIBUTE the software (modified, or no) in binary form, that the source code must be made available in a machine-readable form for no more cost than the cost of distribution.
Nowhere does it state that the original authors have to be notified of your changes. And if you keep things in-house, you most certainly do not have to provide your changes to anyone else.
Is there anyway for us to enjoy our god given right to playing the best video games, without comprimising our wish to strike back at our evil oppressors?
>Play the games on your PC, then. Don't they suck up enough of your time? Seriously, you are placing a rather disturbingly low price on your freedom. I hope the price isn't so low for too many people, or we're all in trouble.
We will fight them in the seas. We will fight them in our towns. We will fight them in the hills. We will never surrender.
Seriously though: this is one disturbing example of how corporate power is going to affect our freedom in the future. We'd better wake up to this fact and do something about it soon.
I think the reason for that is the technology is changing...as soon as USB came out, another, faster technology (firewire) could already take its place.
The real problem here was that manufacturers were VERY slow to produce USB peripherals. My Asus Pentium motherboard had connectors for USB ports on it 4 years ago, but until the iMac came along last year (or was it the year before?), there was narry a USB peripheral in sight.
I disagree. The GNOME panel displays buttons for application selection, though it does limit the available buttons to those on the current virtual desktop. If you want to switch to an app on another virtual desktop, the up arrow next to the pager shows a list of all windows. The functionality is all there, it's just not in yet another bar taking up valuable window real estate.
From the online reporst and the judge's summation, it seems you've based your defense on the issue of computer code as free speech? Why hasn't more of an issue been made on the overly restrictive DMCA and and the MPAA's disdain for citizens' rights of fair use?
I'm sure MS ported portions of NT to the alpha, but it was my understanding that the bulk of it ran under FX!32. My memories of this are a bit vague, however, and stem from an old PC World magazine article which tested NT on a 500MHz Alpha.
I'm sure their 64-bit support is more geared towards the Itanium, rather than the Alpha. Still, it could well that Compaq might yet see a native Alpha port of Win2k.
NT has been running on Alphas in a sort of interpreted mode, um, iFx86, or somesuch and is most definately NOT native. Witness that Win2k is available only for x86 platforms.
In what way are they going to have solid control of the distribution format and players? CD players are dirt cheap these days, and there are no restrictions on who can distribute on that medium. Assuming the artist is free of contracts, if an artist is willing to post mp3s on his sight, offering delivery of CDs for a price, what can the music industry do to stop this? What can the RIAA do to independent e-businesses that pop up, offering artists a bigger slice of the pie in exchange for their on-line distribution channel? If artists like Sheryl Crowe, Neil Young, Cornershop, put-your-pop-artist-here decide to move on to this business model as their contracts expire, what is the RIAA to do about it, really? Advertise the latest Titsie Beers album even more?
I agree. Let the Free Market decide which OSes should prevail. That means, no further government subsidy of Linux. Government funded academics should no longer be permitted to do any Linux kernel work while on the timeclock. Government entities like NASA should not be allowed to extend Linux, i.e. the guy who's written most of the ethernet code.
We cannot have a free market when there are intrusive bureaucrats pushing a Linux agenda with goverment funds and resources.
You're assuming that a large part of the work done on the Linux kernel is either directly or indirectly funded by the government. That is almost certainly false.
But let's assume it was true:
Off the top of my head I can name 6 or 7 companies that owe their existence and their future to the Linux kernel and its further development. Are you suggesting that the government stop funding research whose results and technologies are then transferred to the private sector? What do you suppose would happen to half the research at M.I.T./CalTech/major research intsitution of choice, then?
Let's not even get into how the internet itself came about.
I've seen this post - and several others - in multiple threads over the last few days. What's going on here?/. spam bots? Or are these cowards just useless twits with nothing better to do than cut and paste the same old crap over and over?
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Patents are awarded to people who invent something new even if they are obvious.
This may be the case, but it's certanly not the intent of the patent system. Patents should NEVER be granted if they are obvious to someone 'reasonably skilled in the art'. I would think that includes the engineers at 3dfx, ATi, Matrox, Diamond, Intel....
3dfx had a jump on NVIDIA, time-wise, but NVIDIA managed to patent this technology first. True, I am a pro-nvidia guy all the way, but i think in this case their actions are totally justifiable.
If this is the case, then the idea is not patentable, since it was developed by another person or persons reasonably skilled in the art. Either company could show prior art, even if it was only in their test labs.
I have three machines, all with different motherboard types and/or manufacturers (BX6-2, BP6, P3B-F) and have never experienced ANY problems under XFree86-3.3.6, or more recently, XFree-4.0. Check your hardware.
The GPL makes no such requirement. It only requires that if you REDISTRIBUTE the software (modified, or no) in binary form, that the source code must be made available in a machine-readable form for no more cost than the cost of distribution.
Nowhere does it state that the original authors have to be notified of your changes. And if you keep things in-house, you most certainly do not have to provide your changes to anyone else.
Is there anyway for us to enjoy our god given right to playing the best video games, without comprimising our wish to strike back at our evil oppressors?
>Play the games on your PC, then. Don't they suck up enough of your time? Seriously, you are placing a rather disturbingly low price on your freedom. I hope the price isn't so low for too many people, or we're all in trouble.
We will fight them in the seas. We will fight them in our towns. We will fight them in the hills. We will never surrender.
Seriously though: this is one disturbing example of how corporate power is going to affect our freedom in the future. We'd better wake up to this fact and do something about it soon.
I think the reason for that is the technology is changing...as soon as USB came out, another, faster technology (firewire) could already take its place.
The real problem here was that manufacturers were VERY slow to produce USB peripherals. My Asus Pentium motherboard had connectors for USB ports on it 4 years ago, but until the iMac came along last year (or was it the year before?), there was narry a USB peripheral in sight.
GNOME has no equivalent to the taskbar.
I disagree. The GNOME panel displays buttons for application selection, though it does limit the available buttons to those on the current virtual desktop. If you want to switch to an app on another virtual desktop, the up arrow next to the pager shows a list of all windows. The functionality is all there, it's just not in yet another bar taking up valuable window real estate.
Teletype? Luxury! When I was a child I had to carry a 100-lb box of punch cards 5 miles to the reader and back to the printout. Uphill! Both ways!
Thank you. I needed that laugh.
Mathematica for Linux has existed for quite some time now. We used it at the last company I worked for. Check it out.
From the online reporst and the judge's summation, it seems you've based your defense on the issue of computer code as free speech? Why hasn't more of an issue been made on the overly restrictive DMCA and and the MPAA's disdain for citizens' rights of fair use?
I'm sure MS ported portions of NT to the alpha, but it was my understanding that the bulk of it ran under FX!32. My memories of this are a bit vague, however, and stem from an old PC World magazine article which tested NT on a 500MHz Alpha.
I'm sure their 64-bit support is more geared towards the Itanium, rather than the Alpha. Still, it could well that Compaq might yet see a native Alpha port of Win2k.
NT has been running on Alphas in a sort of interpreted mode, um, iFx86, or somesuch and is most definately NOT native. Witness that Win2k is available only for x86 platforms.
'Cavalier' is another word for 'knight'. I'd say that's fairly positive.
You can't be that naive. Where do you think most 'news' stories come from? Reporting? LOL.
In what way are they going to have solid control of the distribution format and players? CD players are dirt cheap these days, and there are no restrictions on who can distribute on that medium. Assuming the artist is free of contracts, if an artist is willing to post mp3s on his sight, offering delivery of CDs for a price, what can the music industry do to stop this? What can the RIAA do to independent e-businesses that pop up, offering artists a bigger slice of the pie in exchange for their on-line distribution channel? If artists like Sheryl Crowe, Neil Young, Cornershop, put-your-pop-artist-here decide to move on to this business model as their contracts expire, what is the RIAA to do about it, really? Advertise the latest Titsie Beers album even more?
"Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating." --Richard Stallman (hyperlink by me)
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Right. And Boeing, Lockheed and MD are not subsidized by the US government. What planet was it you said you come from?
I agree. Let the Free Market decide which OSes should prevail. That means, no further government subsidy of Linux. Government funded academics should no longer be permitted to do any Linux kernel work while on the timeclock. Government entities like NASA should not be allowed to extend Linux, i.e. the guy who's written most of the ethernet code. We cannot have a free market when there are intrusive bureaucrats pushing a Linux agenda with goverment funds and resources.
You're assuming that a large part of the work done on the Linux kernel is either directly or indirectly funded by the government. That is almost certainly false.
But let's assume it was true:
Off the top of my head I can name 6 or 7 companies that owe their existence and their future to the Linux kernel and its further development. Are you suggesting that the government stop funding research whose results and technologies are then transferred to the private sector? What do you suppose would happen to half the research at M.I.T./CalTech/major research intsitution of choice, then?
Let's not even get into how the internet itself came about.
Think before you pipe up like an idiot.
Ever heard of paragraphs?
They break up sentences into logical groupings, to help the reader make sense of what was written.
Try them out sometime.
I've seen this post - and several others - in multiple threads over the last few days. What's going on here? /. spam bots? Or are these cowards just useless twits with nothing better to do than cut and paste the same old crap over and over?
This has been posted before, verbatim, on another thread.
"I am a chicken fucker."
 --RMS