Maybe it's just me, and I'm sorry, but I imagine that the local "Software Freedom" party would be only very slightly less painful and awkward than the "CoCo Forever" party thrown last week by the local Tandy Computer User's Group.
They seem to be learning about intelligently designing a rocket motor, which is obviously unconstitutional, and can't possibly work anyway.
I don't fly want to fly in a rocket designed any other way than by natural selection.
I'm pretty sure that it there were a Linux client, Netflix would pick up at least 27 or 28 new subscriptions. Maybe up to 30, but that's being pretty optimistic.
Of course, that's assuming there is both a Gnome client and a KDE client, as well as maybe an Emacs Lisp client to grab that last 1 or 2 subscribers.
If they really want to make inroads into the Linux userbase, they ought to figure out how to get Richard Stallman to write a manifesto calling for a Free Software Netflix client. If they could do that, then it probably wouldn't be more than 20-30 years before all Linux users could easily compile their own mostly-working Netflix client.
I mean, assuming the code wasn't abandoned and then rewritten more than twice before release. Otherwise it might take a little bit longer. But it would be totally worth it to have a Free-as-in-speech Netflix client.
Didn't you ever see one of those cartoons where Wile E. Coyote tries to trick Roadrunner into eating iron shot so that he can then use a giant horseshoe magnet mounted on a car to catch him, but then somehow Wile E. Coyote ends up eating the shot and getting dragged all over the desert running into cacti as the car with the magnet careens uncontrollably about?
And when Samsung was there the second time, I'm sure they forgot to mention the eeeeeevvvvil photoshopping.
Too bad Samsung hired a bunch of incompetents as lawyers. Any outraged nerd on slashdot could have done better.
Hey you're probably right. I can just imagine how the judge made this decision: "... what? ipscreen? 500 mebibibbets..es.. Huh? oh.. my head hurts... Oooh, pretty picture.... I like.... Apple good."
Well it doesn't really matter because it's a well known fact that German judges make their decisions by drinking a few liters of beer and then flipping a coin.
I mean, it's not like anyone who actually considered the evidence and listened to the arguments would find for Apple.
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Maybe it's just me, and I'm sorry, but I imagine that the local "Software Freedom" party would be only very slightly less painful and awkward than the "CoCo Forever" party thrown last week by the local Tandy Computer User's Group.
I tried this. It says:
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They seem to be learning about intelligently designing a rocket motor, which is obviously unconstitutional, and can't possibly work anyway.
I don't fly want to fly in a rocket designed any other way than by natural selection.
arguably on-topic, for once.
I'm pretty sure that it there were a Linux client, Netflix would pick up at least 27 or 28 new subscriptions. Maybe up to 30, but that's being pretty optimistic.
Of course, that's assuming there is both a Gnome client and a KDE client, as well as maybe an Emacs Lisp client to grab that last 1 or 2 subscribers.
If they really want to make inroads into the Linux userbase, they ought to figure out how to get Richard Stallman to write a manifesto calling for a Free Software Netflix client. If they could do that, then it probably wouldn't be more than 20-30 years before all Linux users could easily compile their own mostly-working Netflix client.
I mean, assuming the code wasn't abandoned and then rewritten more than twice before release. Otherwise it might take a little bit longer. But it would be totally worth it to have a Free-as-in-speech Netflix client.
I think this definition could prove quite useful in the legislative process.
That guy might as well just go buy a Galaxy Tab, because the iPad will never 'mature' into a device that lets him view his flash-based porn.
Of course not. Silverlight is HTML5.
I won't ever use Windows! If it can't show me the WHOLE web then it's just a crippled toy!
Yeah, I set up all these accounts 10-15 years ago in preparation for just this occasion.
I only ridicule those who think they have a better grasp of European and German law than German judges.
Didn't you ever see one of those cartoons where Wile E. Coyote tries to trick Roadrunner into eating iron shot so that he can then use a giant horseshoe magnet mounted on a car to catch him, but then somehow Wile E. Coyote ends up eating the shot and getting dragged all over the desert running into cacti as the car with the magnet careens uncontrollably about?
It's just like that.
You must be right.
German judges are so well known for their corruptibility, after all.
And when Samsung was there the second time, I'm sure they forgot to mention the eeeeeevvvvil photoshopping.
Too bad Samsung hired a bunch of incompetents as lawyers. Any outraged nerd on slashdot could have done better.
Wow. I'll bet if the judge had seen that document he would have decided differently!
Sure. A German court found for Apple twice because of some photoshopped pictures.
Right....
Of course! Why didn't I think of that?
A nice meal... a few beers... some after dinner "entertainment"...
German judges are such pushovers.
That was only the preliminary injunction.
"Still the same picture?"
"Yeah..."
"Injunction confirmed."
What else can you hope for in a place where a "late night before the law exam" refers to a party in the university pub? right?
Hey you're probably right. I can just imagine how the judge made this decision:
"... what? ipscreen? 500 mebibibbets..es.. Huh? oh.. my head hurts... Oooh, pretty picture.... I like.... Apple good."
Well it doesn't really matter because it's a well known fact that German judges make their decisions by drinking a few liters of beer and then flipping a coin.
I mean, it's not like anyone who actually considered the evidence and listened to the arguments would find for Apple.
Obviously the judge didn't bother to read the evidence or he would have realized that the whole case is just Apple trying to patent rectangles.
How is it possible that a judge could be more ignorant of the law than a hoard of anonymous outraged nerds on slashdot?
And the lack of background music when relaxing with a good book certainly didn't help!
All of the gold, platinum, and other precious metals originally on Earth were sucked into Earth's molten iron core soon after our planet formed...
Now I know where I can find all the gold! CHA-CHING!
Now if we can only find a bacterium that converts sunlight into nuclear waste we'll have near infinite clean energy!