There may be another aspect: they are not deployed in the nations where traditionally American rocket are but in new NATO member states which russia regards as its sphere of influence. and of course the missile defense it targeted at russia.
It should be seen as just another argument to exclude software from the list of patentable subject matters. Microsoft will learn it the hard way but they will.
Or Mandriva. But the problem is that Microsoft will not change. It has to be made obsolete.
I think the governments needs to spent one billion on Linux to close that severe security gap. Billions are spent on oil interests, military invasions but digital homeland security is underrated. One billion, so we can employ 20 programmers on each major application we want to get run under wine, we fund core development tasks,... and get finally rid of Microsoft Windows.
Or competition authorities? Forcing Microsoft to lay open all of its protocols.
namely, the prize of being 'chosen' over others, our reluctance to actually think, and our weakness to calls to authority
I am the elite. Do I need a cult?
Scientology does not suit me. I think we need to develop an open source(*) competitor to Scientology, a religions everyone can freely edit and modify, with no copyright involved.
The rights of a =POPE= include but are not necessarily limited to: To invoke infallibility at any time, including retroactively. To completely rework the Erisian church. To baptise, bury, and marry (with the permission of the deceased in the latter two cases). To ex-communicate, de-ex-communicate, re-ex-communicate, and de-re-ex-communicate (no backsies!) both his-/her-/it-/them-/your-/our-/His-/Her-/It-/Them- /Your-/Our-self/selves and others (if any). To perform all rites and functions deemed inappropriate for a Pope of Discordia."
(*) some persons prefer to speak of Free religion. It's about freedom not pricve. However, you are free to sell your religion.
The preamble of the UNS(UNS is not Scientology) General Public license
The licenses for most religions are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the UNS General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free religion--to make sure the religion is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Religions Foundation's cults and to any other ceremonies whose prophets commit to using it. (Some other Free Religion Foundation cults are covered by the UNS Lesser General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your cult too.
When we speak of free religion, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of your belief (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the cult or use pieces of it in new free cults; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights. These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you distribute copies of the religion, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a cult, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights. We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the religion, and (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the religion.
Also, for each prophet's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free religion. If the religion is modified by someone else and passed on, we want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original prophet' reputations.
Finally, any free religion is threatened constantly by the spanish inquisition. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free religion will individually obtain indulgence licenses, in effect making the religion orthodox. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any Indulgence license must be licensed for everyone's free heresy or not licensed at all.
Quite the opposite. Its downhill. At least in Europe and in the US they learn it the hard way. Patent law is in crisis.
"... because of TRIPS, which contains an innocent looking but very nasty clause, that patents must be obtainable in any technical field."
True, but data processing does not belong in a "field of technology". This was reassured when TRIPs got implemented. It will be quite important to apply definitions of technical which rules out software.
"person skilled in the art" is a legal fiction. You'd know that. It is not empirical and it does not mean 'average programmer' but is essentially a dogmatic concept.
No, you don't have to obey to stupid laws. Progress is based on real men who break the rules. See how your Government breaks the rules. Why should you obey?
I don't live in a repressive country, no DMCA, no prohibition. You get alkohol officially as an 18 year old. But its common to get alkohol or weed as an underage. I mean, look back at war times. Or look at capital punishment. In the US underaged criminals get executed but grown-ups may not drink?
There is a law and persons who obey. Obedience is a real problem.
That is exactly the "asshole attitude". Why didn't she just accept the IDs? Because she feels the power.
I mean, look. Laws which don't let you drink alcohol 21 are absolutely insane.
She deserves DMCA punishment.
Persons get a number and are registered. The Netherlands made it easy for the nazi occupation to kill jews. They had a register of jews.
Security by obfuscation works. It makes it more complicated to track you down.
So there are very repressive stupid laws in the United States which aim to prevent you from drinking alkohol. What madness. You try to satisfy the bars and get a fake ID. So a bar person does not have to check if your ID is real, he just needs to satisfy the law, ok, I checked the IDs.
But this guy plays police aid. Why? He deserves to be treated like that, this is the guy the DMCA was made for.
Maybe the paradoxon is work. They observe that persons "work for free". what they don't see is the force which drives people to do what they find meaningful. In fact the labour system is suboptimal as it leads to a misallocation of talent.
SuSE customers were very pissed when those "Novell desktop strategists" tried to push for their GNOME technology and break the distribution. That was unethical and many Suse employees left the company. The Survey shows that the Ximian crowd failed.
I don't really see the point of the US. Patent law adheres to the territorial principle. Brasil is free to request compulsory licensing. And everythings conforms TRIPs.
In fact the USA did the same with Bayer vaccine.
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And the fact is that EFF is the most ineffective lobby organisation when it comes to patent reform. I am not sure that the donation would change that.
Yes, indeed. but unfortunately it is still a bit buggy here and there. Someone has to dump some money onto it.
odf is a good case. The main point is that they can't wine everywhere. This is why decentral action is required.
There may be another aspect: they are not deployed in the nations where traditionally American rocket are but in new NATO member states which russia regards as its sphere of influence. and of course the missile defense it targeted at russia.
It should be seen as just another argument to exclude software from the list of patentable subject matters. Microsoft will learn it the hard way but they will.
Microsoft J++, dbase skills? --- C-Programmers are very much needed.
I guess thery should invest 10% of what they gained into patent reform.
Or Mandriva. But the problem is that Microsoft will not change. It has to be made obsolete.
... and get finally rid of Microsoft Windows.
I think the governments needs to spent one billion on Linux to close that severe security gap. Billions are spent on oil interests, military invasions but digital homeland security is underrated. One billion, so we can employ 20 programmers on each major application we want to get run under wine, we fund core development tasks,
Or competition authorities? Forcing Microsoft to lay open all of its protocols.
Good points, but how to put the kibosh on Vista?
I am the elite. Do I need a cult?
Scientology does not suit me. I think we need to develop an open source(*) competitor to Scientology, a religions everyone can freely edit and modify, with no copyright involved.
Did you know that Scientology is implemented in some open source technologies? Anyway, Scientology may be useful, but it needs to be free. And please no sunglasses and psycho responses.
what about discordianism?
(*) some persons prefer to speak of Free religion. It's about freedom not pricve. However, you are free to sell your religion.
Quite the opposite. Its downhill. At least in Europe and in the US they learn it the hard way. Patent law is in crisis.
"... because of TRIPS, which contains an innocent looking but very nasty clause, that patents must be obtainable in any technical field."
True, but data processing does not belong in a "field of technology". This was reassured when TRIPs got implemented. It will be quite important to apply definitions of technical which rules out software.
"person skilled in the art" is a legal fiction. You'd know that. It is not empirical and it does not mean 'average programmer' but is essentially a dogmatic concept.
Medicine underway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_II,_Holy_Ro man_Emperor
Time for a crusade against Microsoft.
Indeed, soft patents are evil. It is better to put the kibosh on them.
Or that governments let make it happen. Its nothing to invest 1 billion in an alternative operating plattform.
governments can do. I means imagine we got 50 developers who work on getting Windows application run with Wine. governments can be it, its peanuts.
but they prefer to pay license fees and enslave us all.
No, you don't have to obey to stupid laws. Progress is based on real men who break the rules. See how your Government breaks the rules. Why should you obey?
I don't live in a repressive country, no DMCA, no prohibition. You get alkohol officially as an 18 year old. But its common to get alkohol or weed as an underage. I mean, look back at war times. Or look at capital punishment. In the US underaged criminals get executed but grown-ups may not drink? There is a law and persons who obey. Obedience is a real problem.
I am sorry. But don't you think its wrong how bartenders get manipulated?
That is exactly the "asshole attitude". Why didn't she just accept the IDs? Because she feels the power. I mean, look. Laws which don't let you drink alcohol 21 are absolutely insane. She deserves DMCA punishment.
Persons get a number and are registered. The Netherlands made it easy for the nazi occupation to kill jews. They had a register of jews. Security by obfuscation works. It makes it more complicated to track you down.
So there are very repressive stupid laws in the United States which aim to prevent you from drinking alkohol. What madness. You try to satisfy the bars and get a fake ID. So a bar person does not have to check if your ID is real, he just needs to satisfy the law, ok, I checked the IDs.
But this guy plays police aid. Why? He deserves to be treated like that, this is the guy the DMCA was made for.
What happened to the States?
Get a passport and leave that nation!
The question is why don't you leave that repressive environment to save your mental health?
Maybe the paradoxon is work. They observe that persons "work for free". what they don't see is the force which drives people to do what they find meaningful. In fact the labour system is suboptimal as it leads to a misallocation of talent.
"Pawel Jakub Dawidek has ported and committed ZFS to FreeBSD for inclusion in FreeBSD 7.0, due to be released in 2007" (wikipedia)
SuSE customers were very pissed when those "Novell desktop strategists" tried to push for their GNOME technology and break the distribution. That was unethical and many Suse employees left the company. The Survey shows that the Ximian crowd failed.
I don't really see the point of the US. Patent law adheres to the territorial principle. Brasil is free to request compulsory licensing. And everythings conforms TRIPs. In fact the USA did the same with Bayer vaccine.