That is a very good explaination, except that it happens to be wrong (yes, I know it what is teached in american schools but that doesnt make it right).
One simple fact that ruins the theory: The japanese offered to surrender prior to the dropping of the nuclear bombs. They just hadnt offered to surrender unconditionally, they wanted to the emperor to be free of prosecusion, which the americans granted them anyway after they had surrendered.
The reason for dropping the bombs is then reduced to Truman having promised the american people an unconditional surrender, and nothing else...
Only if you dont defend your patent, or make him aware he is infringing. But standard is a bit weak term, maybe better to say that if you let your patent come into wide use without claiming your patent right, you cant come back and claim it later to pick royalties.
It's a replacement for bookmarks. Just use ggl: in konqueror and you always gets the homepage you are looking for. Using it to search for advance topics is pratically impossible since it doesnt support even the most basic logic or simply ignores it.
It's a great and lengthy article, but am I the only one who feels that they misrepresent the Microsoft vs Stac case?
They first state it as a victory for patents, but didnt Stacker go bancrupt during the case, because of the violation by Microsoft? And Microsoft didnt break the negotiations and develop their own product infringing on a patent. They broke the negotiations and released code stolen from Stacker as their own.
With this "poster" case punctured, can anyone come up with a case where a patent has protected a small company against a much larger?
No because someone else can't create a new signature. To create a correct signature you need the private key. Since SSL is very weak encryption it wont add anything to even an ordinary private-key/public-key system.
Ehmm... That's what signatures are for. You use a signature to detect whether it really comes from Debian.You dont need to encrypt the signature for this to work, all you need is a public/private key-system.
Illegal how? It was a just using code shipped with windows in a non-intended but perfectly possible way. The hack was simply to use it in avi files besides the crappy streaming format.
Bad style to reply to your own comment, but what the hell.
In my previous comment my arguments for calling the article bullshit was a bit weak. Here are some more: 1. The programs and security-flaws he mentions are stuff like: linux kernel, openssl and mysql. 2. He proposes to solve the problem by using higher level (and he admits: slower) programming languages. 3. So is he suggesting to write the Linux kernel in Java, OpenSSL in Perl and an database in Visual Basic?
Another guy that doesnt know what his talking about, because he has a Microsofty point of view.
What does he mean that the speed of an emailprogram is not important? What kind of bullshit is that? Email programs are database like programs that sometimes deal with huge amounts of data. (My email-archive is several times larger than my databases). The problem with email programs is infact that they start small and efficiency is not considered, and then when developers start using them for real they start choking on 3000 messages per day and 600Mbytes archive of linux-kernel in your inbox.
The people who using Linux on desktop(for real), are not the same people that uses Microsoft on the desktop. The workloads are different and in many cases especially mail-programs, every bit of performance matters because it is already horribly slow.
You mean like Itanium was not supposed to be a real processor or even fast, but just a demonstration of IA64 before the "real" Itanium II processor appears?
They dont need DDR400. Atleast not if NVidia releases a new 400MHz chipset. They already have 2 memory-controllers, and have so for not have much to use them for since bus and memory speed matched. If the bus starts to be significantly faster than memory, NVidia will have a real advantage.
An playstation 2 is 256bit or what? These are different bit sizes than the ones 32 vs 64 refers to. In the 32 vs 64 I am preatty sure Crusoe is only 32 bit. X86-64 is going to have 64bit addressspace, Cruseo has 128 bit instructionsize and PS2 has 256 bit memory bus. Completly different things!
Well studies of Open Source developers shows that they have 10+ years experience on average. More 80% programs or designs for a living, mostly writing closed source programs.
Also this study and others have shown that open source is as good or better than equivalent commercial projects.
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Sound more like she is trying to trap you into making her pregnant.
Oops, I guess it didnt work afterall...
That is a very good explaination, except that it happens to be wrong (yes, I know it what is teached in american schools but that doesnt make it right).
One simple fact that ruins the theory: The japanese offered to surrender prior to the dropping of the nuclear bombs. They just hadnt offered to surrender unconditionally, they wanted to the emperor to be free of prosecusion, which the americans granted them anyway after they had surrendered.
The reason for dropping the bombs is then reduced to Truman having promised the american people an unconditional surrender, and nothing else...
Only if you dont defend your patent, or make him aware he is infringing. But standard is a bit weak term, maybe better to say that if you let your patent come into wide use without claiming your patent right, you cant come back and claim it later to pick royalties.
mmm. try search for "html documentation"..
You will be surprised (or maybe not) by how much documentation there exists presented in html.
I think you are using google the wrong way.
It's a replacement for bookmarks. Just use ggl: in konqueror and you always gets the homepage you are looking for. Using it to search for advance topics is pratically impossible since it doesnt support even the most basic logic or simply ignores it.
Trying the same on alltheweb.com is funnier..
The top match is "Sunglasses Seach on sunbrain.com" Apparently a search-engine for finding sunglasses. LOL
It's a great and lengthy article, but am I the only one who feels that they misrepresent the Microsoft vs Stac case?
They first state it as a victory for patents, but didnt Stacker go bancrupt during the case, because of the violation by Microsoft?
And Microsoft didnt break the negotiations and develop their own product infringing on a patent. They broke the negotiations and released code stolen from Stacker as their own.
With this "poster" case punctured, can anyone come up with a case where a patent has protected a small company against a much larger?
Which mean that they are the ones taping it from the local water supply and selling it at extreme margins.
No because someone else can't create a new signature. To create a correct signature you need the private key. Since SSL is very weak encryption it wont add anything to even an ordinary private-key/public-key system.
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Ehmm... That's what signatures are for. You use a signature to detect whether it really comes from Debian.You dont need to encrypt the signature for this to work, all you need is a public/private key-system.
What do you do when original developer is not available?
Call youself braindead, or admit you are wrong, and the parent poster right?
Illegal how? It was a just using code shipped with windows in a non-intended but perfectly possible way. The hack was simply to use it in avi files besides the crappy streaming format.
Bad style to reply to your own comment, but what the hell.
In my previous comment my arguments for calling the article bullshit was a bit weak. Here are some more:
1. The programs and security-flaws he mentions are stuff like: linux kernel, openssl and mysql.
2. He proposes to solve the problem by using higher level (and he admits: slower) programming languages.
3. So is he suggesting to write the Linux kernel in Java, OpenSSL in Perl and an database in Visual Basic?
What is this guy smoking, and can I have some?
Another guy that doesnt know what his talking about, because he has a Microsofty point of view.
What does he mean that the speed of an emailprogram is not important? What kind of bullshit is that? Email programs are database like programs that sometimes deal with huge amounts of data. (My email-archive is several times larger than my databases). The problem with email programs is infact that they start small and efficiency is not considered, and then when developers start using them for real they start choking on 3000 messages per day and 600Mbytes archive of linux-kernel in your inbox.
The people who using Linux on desktop(for real), are not the same people that uses Microsoft on the desktop. The workloads are different and in many cases especially mail-programs, every bit of performance matters because it is already horribly slow.
... how to mod insightfull flamebait?
You mean like Itanium was not supposed to be a real processor or even fast, but just a demonstration of IA64 before the "real" Itanium II processor appears?
Bullshit.. But a really creative reintrepetation.
Fresh water and clean energy? Sounds awfully unamerican and likely to support terrorism.
They dont need DDR400. Atleast not if NVidia releases a new 400MHz chipset. They already have 2 memory-controllers, and have so for not have much to use them for since bus and memory speed matched. If the bus starts to be significantly faster than memory, NVidia will have a real advantage.
gcc-3_3-branch in gcc CVS aka gcc 3.3
HEAD in KDE CVS aka KDE 3.2
Actually I lovee scaled porn. But hey, I am just an honest lizard.
It wont be incompatible. Gcc 3.3 is 100% compatible with gcc 3.2, so are the gcc 3.3 beta's.
I am writing this from KDE 3.2 compiled with gcc 3.3 linked with a Qt 3.1.1 compiled with gcc 3.2
Btw. stop trolling or stop posting about issues you dont understand..
An playstation 2 is 256bit or what? These are different bit sizes than the ones 32 vs 64 refers to. In the 32 vs 64 I am preatty sure Crusoe is only 32 bit. X86-64 is going to have 64bit addressspace, Cruseo has 128 bit instructionsize and PS2 has 256 bit memory bus. Completly different things!
Well studies of Open Source developers shows that they have 10+ years experience on average. More 80% programs or designs for a living, mostly writing closed source programs.
Also this study and others have shown that open source is as good or better than equivalent commercial projects.
Or in other words, you are wrong! (and trolling)