It is hard to believe the Telco is suing to educate taxpayers about the difference between "government-funded" and "free".
It is far more likely that the Telco is already entrenched in that town, and when aproached by the city they requested "additional incentives" to build the network. When the negotiations broke over this issue, the government decided to do it on their own, and the Telco sued because they will lose to the fiber once it is laid down.
Having said this, it is not unlike a gas company suing a city because the city officials want to replace street gas lights with electric bulbs.
There must be hundreds of prior art. For example, URL autocompletion in both Internet Explorer and Mozilla fit the bill.
I am tempted to patent "patenting frivolous patents" as a business method. At least this way Amazon.com would have to come out of the closet and claim "prior art" (I wouldn't disagree with them).
See how stupid it sounds? Anyone that knows half a thing about software appreciates GNU's immense contributions.
I believe this demand for recognition does more harm than good in promoting the advancement of alternatives to "Greedware".
To be sure, GNU represents an ideological position as much as an organization that does a lot of good based on that position; but ideologies, when used to suppress rather than promote, end up in discredit.
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It is hard to believe the Telco is suing to educate taxpayers about the difference between "government-funded" and "free".
It is far more likely that the Telco is already entrenched in that town, and when aproached by the city they requested "additional incentives" to build the network. When the negotiations broke over this issue, the government decided to do it on their own, and the Telco sued because they will lose to the fiber once it is laid down.
Having said this, it is not unlike a gas company suing a city because the city officials want to replace street gas lights with electric bulbs.
There must be hundreds of prior art. For example, URL autocompletion in both Internet Explorer and Mozilla fit the bill.
I am tempted to patent "patenting frivolous patents" as a business method. At least this way Amazon.com would have to come out of the closet and claim "prior art" (I wouldn't disagree with them).
The book review on Kevin Yank's "Build..." is followed by a link to Barnes and Noble, to buy the book.
:-(
When you follow the link, BN informs you they've run out of print with the book.
If you go to some other online bookstores, you find the second edition readily available.
When you receive a telemarketing call (using the hold button most phones have these days) you can put the call on hold making them waste their time.
If everyone did that, the entire telemarketing industry would have to go away...
Here it goes:
Linux
Is
Not
GNU,
NOR
UNIX
See how stupid it sounds? Anyone that knows half a thing about software appreciates GNU's immense contributions.
I believe this demand for recognition does more harm than good in promoting the advancement of alternatives to "Greedware".
To be sure, GNU represents an ideological position as much as an organization that does a lot of good based on that position; but ideologies, when used to suppress rather than promote, end up in discredit.
This is what happens with monopolies everywhere. Since some functions must be centralized by their very nature, they should not be for-profit.