Unfortunately while WIPO and others argue about counterfeiting watches and designer accessories and other fripperies which affect rich companies there is real and dangerous counterfeiting going on which really does kill people.
China has a huge number of operations counterfeiting medical drugs. These are sold inside China and exported, mainly to third world countries. They are often very good fakes and very difficult to tell from the real product and often contain very little of the active beneficial drug. Especially bad are the counterfeit antibiotics and anti-malarials. It's actually quite hard to get real medical drugs in China, and the counterfeting extends to traditional chinese herbal medicine.
A lot of the real designer goods are made in China anyway, the fakes often made at the same factories but without the QA provided by the contracting design companies.
it's interesting how the FOSS movement delightfully and intentionally has made every piece of GPL3 code a trojan horse that can destroy a company's business model if a single programmer without the knowledge of the business copies a snippet of code to make his job easier.
It's interesting how companies that produce proprietary code have made all their code a trojan horse that can destroy anyone who copies their code and uses it.
And MS pays heavily in terms of $, time, and raw manpower to get paid astroturfers to comment on any articles about windows. Especially the "I've used linux for years but it's hard to get it working" variety and especially since W7 came out.
I've installed systems with linux that just worked, every bit. I've spent days installing windows and sundry applications - trying to download drivers for all the hardware MS didn't apparently write drivers for in those "millions of hardware devices". It's worse when you have to download drivers for the netork card.
Patents are not about getting money back for spending it on something. Wrong. Patents are about getting a monopoly on a good idea so you can continue to have good ideas and be encouraged to tell everyone about them.
It's not for what you spent but for your idea. What you spent is irrelevant.
Rubbish. You could ship it with a skeleton html renderer, enough to do basics or you could ship it without on and bring up a dialog to download or activate one.
"You have asked to use a non-Microsoft rendering engine for windows. Not all help pages may be completely readable if you choose this option.
Are you really, really, really, really sure you want to do this? (y/N)."
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the cøw with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brøther-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Nørwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passiøn", "The Huge Mølars of Hørst Nørdfink"...
or people who borrow them from a library or from friends? Or people who buy them remaindered or second hand (from which he gets no money)? What does he says about that eh?
I have wanted something simple for a while now. I don't understand why it isn't obvious. I want a wireless and USB mouse. A wireless mouse that you can plug into USB (it has a normal USB socket on it where a mouse cable might be. The USB cable charges it when it's plugged in and you can still use it while it's charging.
How hard would this be?
Oh and I used to use a thing called synergy to allow a mouse and keyboard from one desktop to be used on another. What about a wifi mouse eh?
It's amazing that Americans climate change deniers focus on Al Gore so much. Al Gore making a fortune? You have to be Joe King.
How much money is involved here? How much in Oil, Coal and the energy industries? Many, many Trillions. How much in the side of scientists studying climate change? Relatively very, very little at all.
Al Gore is a wookie. Look! Al Gore, lives on the planet Endore.
Junk science is a good name for a climate change denying website funded by oil and energy money. Every one of your "facts" are rubbish.
Why bother with the "man-made" if climate change is a hoax?
WHILE their warships patrol the Gulf of Aden to protect merchant shipping from Somali pirates, a number of those nations are directly linked to foreign fishing fleets that are plundering Somalia's fish stocks, says a new paper on reasons behind the growth of piracy off the Horn of Africa.
There are warships from India, Malaysia, Britain, the US, France, Russia, Spain and South Korea in the region shepherding merchant shipping and pursuing pirates but largely ignoring the illegal foreign fishers.
Yeah but none of them even adhere to either the MSOOXML standard as supplied to ECMA or as the new edited draft after the BRM and they can't adhere to both can they?
No application actually writes in either of these standards.
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Unfortunately while WIPO and others argue about counterfeiting watches and designer accessories and other fripperies which affect rich companies there is real and dangerous counterfeiting going on which really does kill people.
China has a huge number of operations counterfeiting medical drugs. These are sold inside China and exported, mainly to third world countries. They are often very good fakes and very difficult to tell from the real product and often contain very little of the active beneficial drug. Especially bad are the counterfeit antibiotics and anti-malarials. It's actually quite hard to get real medical drugs in China, and the counterfeting extends to traditional chinese herbal medicine.
A lot of the real designer goods are made in China anyway, the fakes often made at the same factories but without the QA provided by the contracting design companies.
it's interesting how the FOSS movement delightfully and intentionally has made every piece of GPL3 code a trojan horse that can destroy a company's business model if a single programmer without the knowledge of the business copies a snippet of code to make his job easier.
It's interesting how companies that produce proprietary code have made all their code a trojan horse that can destroy anyone who copies their code and uses it.
And MS pays heavily in terms of $, time, and raw manpower to get paid astroturfers to comment on any articles about windows. Especially the "I've used linux for years but it's hard to get it working" variety and especially since W7 came out.
I've installed systems with linux that just worked, every bit. I've spent days installing windows and sundry applications - trying to download drivers for all the hardware MS didn't apparently write drivers for in those "millions of hardware devices". It's worse when you have to download drivers for the netork card.
But unfortunately for you, it is: http://www.linuxmark.org/
Patents are not about getting money back for spending it on something. Wrong. Patents are about getting a monopoly on a good idea so you can continue to have good ideas and be encouraged to tell everyone about them.
It's not for what you spent but for your idea. What you spent is irrelevant.
Yeah and it's what happened then that has caused the ire this time. They don't want Microsoft to weasel out any competition yet again.
Been smoking the Microsoft crack pipe again have we?
SO let's see ODF includes :
ODT: text,
ODS: spreadsheet,
ODP: presentation,
ODG: graphics,
ODB: database
and they all work perfectly to the letter do they?
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the cøw with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brøther-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Nørwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passiøn", "The Huge Mølars of Hørst Nørdfink"...
Mynd yøu, cøw bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Define "supports".
or people who borrow them from a library or from friends? Or people who buy them remaindered or second hand (from which he gets no money)? What does he says about that eh?
Because "climate" and "weather" are different things.
I have wanted something simple for a while now. I don't understand why it isn't obvious. I want a wireless and USB mouse. A wireless mouse that you can plug into USB (it has a normal USB socket on it where a mouse cable might be. The USB cable charges it when it's plugged in and you can still use it while it's charging.
How hard would this be?
Oh and I used to use a thing called synergy to allow a mouse and keyboard from one desktop to be used on another. What about a wifi mouse eh?
But it's a great illustration of who is really being hurt by current copyright law.
The ocean is rising but most of the rise is, and will be, because the water is expanding due to warming.
To prove my love for you, I cut off the genitals of these plants.
It's amazing that Americans climate change deniers focus on Al Gore so much. Al Gore making a fortune? You have to be Joe King.
How much money is involved here? How much in Oil, Coal and the energy industries? Many, many Trillions. How much in the side of scientists studying climate change? Relatively very, very little at all.
Al Gore is a wookie. Look! Al Gore, lives on the planet Endore.
Lots of junk references do not make his post any more real than hand-waving.
If you want some facts:
http://www.realclimate.org/
Why the Hockey stick graph has been proved wrong:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11646-climate-myths-the-hockey-stick-graph-has-been-proven-wrong.html
Come on it's all just so old.
And why bother saying climate change is not man-made if you're denying the climate change in the first place. Silly.
Oh here's 10 myths about climate change debunked:
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/programs/atmosphere-energy/climate-change/ten-myths.html
Junk science is a good name for a climate change denying website funded by oil and energy money. Every one of your "facts" are rubbish. Why bother with the "man-made" if climate change is a hoax?
There's big money, very big money and huge astroturfing campaigns in denying global warming too.
You're an ASS?
Licensing the OS might kill Apple because Microsoft would be directly competing with them. Companies that compete with Microsoft die, quickly.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/fishing-fleets-are-pirates-too/2008/11/23/1227375062168.html
Yeah but none of them even adhere to either the MSOOXML standard as supplied to ECMA or as the new edited draft after the BRM and they can't adhere to both can they?
No application actually writes in either of these standards.