Yes, it sounds like cyc and cyc is just a too ambitous project, see
http://www.opencyc.org/
For me it has no use at all.
IP, html, google work very well because they are simple. There are "better", complicated systems, protocols, ideas. But they are not useful yet.
I think it sounds like a honey trap for investors who want to waste their money and I really wonder whether the will file a "software patent" or do other crap:-)
The prime minister detection is a very simple issue.
AI does not work, because it is not designed for a customer, it is designed to convince the public funding agencies.
In Germany SCO was ordered by court to stop it's baseless claims. Strong competition law means that anti-compatitive action/rimors is stopped. In the UK it should be the same.
Anyway, I really wonder why nobody has filed a criminal investigation into SCO yet. In Germany business fraud is illegal.
Poland's intervention against Software patents is courageous while Poland's support of the US invasion was just prostitution. The supporters of the US objected the war in Iraq and tried to slow down the misguided US machine. Those nations were the friends of the US and they were willing to pay a price for their honesty.
I regard soldiers as an instrument of policy, the guys who have to do the dirty job. A braveness and respect cult just creates the wrong image of their work. Who cares whether a soldier is brave or not, they have to do their job and they do it, not because they want it but because they are ordered so. In communism they had "heros of work", in the US a new kind of hero cult seems to take place. But that's bad propaganda for uneducated people.
No, they just did it to indicate that it is a alpha. In Germany many IT newsmagazines published betas of OO 1.0 as "OO 1.0", so that has to be avoided. Users shall not get diapappointed by prereleases.
You forgot to mention that Eolas is no software company such as Microsoft (hate them, but they are a software company with code) but a well-known patent privateer. They filed patents for various technologies they claim to own such as the Digital timestamp and so on. Eolas also forced IBM to license their "e"-Trademark also used by the eBusiness advertisement campaign from IBM.
What is a patent privateer? A patent privateer obtains patents and sues/blackmails technology companys in the market place.
Software patents are evil. It is time to get organised and to get rid of them.
No, you are wrong, we have already won.
Patents4Innovation is from Eicta, those guys behind the directive who are not seeking a compromise but spread false claims.
It is a common observation in the debate that newbies have a false impression about the real power distribution.
Everybody knows that Spam filter technology is covered by many trivial software patents. In Germany there was a case Nutzwerk vs. cobion. Patent trolls like spam-filter patents.
You can search the patent database
http://gauss.ffii.org
Unfortunately spam is not named spam.
As far as I remmeber Eolas and McAfie also hold anti-Spam patents.
It is worth to start a collection of swpat. Note that currently some large corporations funds a company that buys bad patents from patent trolls.
Software patents are bad for the market and patents that have to be granted royality-free are not worth the transaction cost burden the software company pays to the patent industry (= patent professionals). Patent trolls contribute much to market insecurity in the software market.
I don't believe that conceptual protection of software was bad but patents ARE the wrong instruments. Players such as FFII's Hartmut Pilch propose Industrial Copyright to fill the gap. It there is a gap.
Who cares whether Linux runs on my microwave? Who cares whether Linux runs on my PDA? More important for me is that it interoperates with my Linux PC, that it is cheap and stable. Anyway, my Palm Zire 31 costs 139 Euro, shipped with GPL Software by PalmSource Inc., a lot of GPL-Software is available for the Palm and it has a colour display.
Intresting, in Germany it is different: - a liberal is an capitalist or a traditional conservative liberal - liberal in other relationships means just what it means: personal freedom, power distribution - An ordoliberal is someone who is in favour of the current German economic system, most conservatives. - A person for more government programs is found in every single party. But i believe left-wing and trade union, and business associations are in favour. - a libertarian is a left wing anarchist - the republicans are right wing extremists - politics is and has to be secular, despite some strange Bavarian opinions - nationalism is regarded as a lack of personal education - religious groups of the US kind are seen as stupid radicals which you cannot and do not take serious
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Everybody knows that R. Reagan sunk a lot of money in governmental/military programs. As the king of deficit spending and de-facto Keysian policy he must be seen as a liberal according to your definition.
It is a question of lobbying power. Speeches, demonstrations, lobbying in Brussels. The real problem is the lack of support. There will be so much too lose with a software patent system. But it is difficult to get enough money for lobbying activities. Organisations such as FFII act with almost no budget and organise so many events. Anti-softwarepatent Demonstration with RMS in Amsterdam. what is even more important is professional expertise and action at an early stage of development, see "upcoming EU Consultations".
Well, a fact is that opposition in the USA is less organised. entering mailing lists is a first step. There are only 21 subsribers to us-parl at ffii.org.
Please support us in Europe. It is crucial that we win this vote, we can take on the other issues later. On the UN level we are already very strong. On the long run we will win.
Well, the political debate in Europe is almost won. There is no real business opposition, it's all about patent attorneys. It remains a power question, the fusioned executive branches represent the interests of patent attorneys.. We have to adress the issue of software patents worldwide, also in the USA.
RMS is smart but an awful advocate. As a lobbyist he is really counter-productive and RMS is proud of it- He is bad in organisation, a lonely personal priest, nothing more.
An organisation such as FFII was able to really make a difference because of comprehensive Analysis.
english does use a latin character set.
I mean languages such as hindi, arabic, Russian, Japanese with a different character set. these are popular charater sets but there may be less potential languages that are written by "poor people". Try to get a localized version of a software product (a texteditor shareware) in Hindi. Hindi is nothing special. With Foss you could do it yourself.
The funny thing is how little money we need in order to have huge lobbying impact. On the international level the lobbying of Brazil really makes a difference. Hope the world summint on the Information society II in Tunesia will be another great show of FOSS adoption.
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Yes, it sounds like cyc and cyc is just a too ambitous project, see
:-)
http://www.opencyc.org/
For me it has no use at all.
IP, html, google work very well because they are simple. There are "better", complicated systems, protocols, ideas. But they are not useful yet.
I think it sounds like a honey trap for investors who want to waste their money and I really wonder whether the will file a "software patent" or do other crap
The prime minister detection is a very simple issue.
AI does not work, because it is not designed for a customer, it is designed to convince the public funding agencies.
In Germany SCO was ordered by court to stop it's baseless claims. Strong competition law means that anti-compatitive action/rimors is stopped. In the UK it should be the same. Anyway, I really wonder why nobody has filed a criminal investigation into SCO yet. In Germany business fraud is illegal.
Sorry, this is off-topic.
Poland's intervention against Software patents is courageous while Poland's support of the US invasion was just prostitution. The supporters of the US objected the war in Iraq and tried to slow down the misguided US machine. Those nations were the friends of the US and they were willing to pay a price for their honesty.
I regard soldiers as an instrument of policy, the guys who have to do the dirty job. A braveness and respect cult just creates the wrong image of their work. Who cares whether a soldier is brave or not, they have to do their job and they do it, not because they want it but because they are ordered so. In communism they had "heros of work", in the US a new kind of hero cult seems to take place. But that's bad propaganda for uneducated people.
No, they just did it to indicate that it is a alpha. In Germany many IT newsmagazines published betas of OO 1.0 as "OO 1.0", so that has to be avoided. Users shall not get diapappointed by prereleases.
The kdefied OO looks better in my view and I think the icon set of oo.org looks bad.
For desktop integration Crystal icons are better as they both integrate in KDE and XP.
You forgot to mention that Eolas is no software company such as Microsoft (hate them, but they are a software company with code) but a well-known patent privateer. They filed patents for various technologies they claim to own such as the Digital timestamp and so on. Eolas also forced IBM to license their "e"-Trademark also used by the eBusiness advertisement campaign from IBM.
What is a patent privateer? A patent privateer obtains patents and sues/blackmails technology companys in the market place.
Software patents are evil. It is time to get organised and to get rid of them.
A Patent is a restriction of competition per definition. The idea is to slow down diffusion to create an incentive.
The patent system is an incentive system, but: only apply the system where it works.
Or organise a US chapter of FFII.
No, you are wrong, we have already won. Patents4Innovation is from Eicta, those guys behind the directive who are not seeking a compromise but spread false claims. It is a common observation in the debate that newbies have a false impression about the real power distribution.
Everybody knows that Spam filter technology is covered by many trivial software patents. In Germany there was a case Nutzwerk vs. cobion. Patent trolls like spam-filter patents. You can search the patent database http://gauss.ffii.org Unfortunately spam is not named spam. As far as I remmeber Eolas and McAfie also hold anti-Spam patents. It is worth to start a collection of swpat. Note that currently some large corporations funds a company that buys bad patents from patent trolls.
Software patents are bad for the market and patents that have to be granted royality-free are not worth the transaction cost burden the software company pays to the patent industry (= patent professionals). Patent trolls contribute much to market insecurity in the software market.
I hope in Europe we will get safe from software patents. It is worth to fight for that.
I don't believe that conceptual protection of software was bad but patents ARE the wrong instruments. Players such as FFII's Hartmut Pilch propose Industrial Copyright to fill the gap. It there is a gap.
For the EU Patent directive European market players need certain amendments into the directive.
Yahoo could save wasted money.
To find out more about patents I recommend a short introduction text of FFII.
You said " The distro is called SUSE, not SuSE.", I am afraid your're wrong
SuSe = System und Softwareentwicklung
in English: System and Software development
Who cares whether Linux runs on my microwave? Who cares whether Linux runs on my PDA? More important for me is that it interoperates with my Linux PC, that it is cheap and stable. Anyway, my Palm Zire 31 costs 139 Euro, shipped with GPL Software by PalmSource Inc., a lot of GPL-Software is available for the Palm and it has a colour display.
Intresting, in Germany it is different:
- a liberal is an capitalist or a traditional conservative liberal
- liberal in other relationships means just what it means: personal freedom, power distribution
- An ordoliberal is someone who is in favour of the current German economic system, most conservatives.
- A person for more government programs is found in every single party. But i believe left-wing and trade union, and business associations are in favour.
- a libertarian is a left wing anarchist
- the republicans are right wing extremists
- politics is and has to be secular, despite some strange Bavarian opinions
- nationalism is regarded as a lack of personal education
- religious groups of the US kind are seen as stupid radicals which you cannot and do not take serious
---
Everybody knows that R. Reagan sunk a lot of money in governmental/military programs. As the king of deficit spending and de-facto Keysian policy he must be seen as a liberal according to your definition.
Well they are not strong enough. What is more important is to interfere in early stage of consulatations, see upcoming EU-consultations.
Alea iacta est. The only thing they can win is to stop it. Only lobbying as the industry does can help to defend our interests.
It is a question of lobbying power. Speeches,
demonstrations, lobbying in Brussels. The real problem is the lack of support. There will be so much too lose with a software patent system. But it is difficult to get enough money for lobbying activities. Organisations such as FFII act with almost no budget and organise so many events.
Anti-softwarepatent Demonstration with RMS in Amsterdam. what is even more important is professional expertise and action at an early stage of development, see "upcoming EU Consultations".
Well, a fact is that opposition in the USA is less organised. entering mailing lists is a first step. There are only 21 subsribers to us-parl at ffii.org.
Please support us in Europe. It is crucial that we win this vote, we can take on the other issues later. On the UN level we are already very strong. On the long run we will win.
Well, the political debate in Europe is almost won. There is no real business opposition, it's all about patent attorneys. It remains a power question, the fusioned executive branches represent the interests of patent attorneys.. We have to adress the issue of software patents worldwide, also in the USA.
US-Parl software Patents mailing list of FFII
What we can do? We can get organised. As a US citizen you could join US-parl@ffii.org.
There are similar lists for EU member states de-parl, fr-parl, nl-parl and so on.
FFII is a very successful software patents criticism advocacy group. FFII's news site covered the PWC story ~ 14 days ago.
RMS is smart but an awful advocate. As a lobbyist he is really counter-productive and RMS is proud of it- He is bad in organisation, a lonely personal priest, nothing more.
:-)
An organisation such as FFII was able to really make a difference because of comprehensive Analysis.
There is also an US-Mailing list of FFII.
1. Get organized
2. ?????
3. Success!
Don't take it personal. I believe your Userlinux is pure vaporware. A wiki page as homepage, looks very professional.
And a User-Linux without KDE? forget it!
Oh, the UN has money and spends money. The UN is a good forum to lobby the lawmaker and to set the international agenda.
Not the UN was to blame for the Rwanda massacre.
The UN security council is just one institution.
english does use a latin character set. I mean languages such as hindi, arabic, Russian, Japanese with a different character set. these are popular charater sets but there may be less potential languages that are written by "poor people". Try to get a localized version of a software product (a texteditor shareware) in Hindi. Hindi is nothing special. With Foss you could do it yourself.
The funny thing is how little money we need in order to have huge lobbying impact. On the international level the lobbying of Brazil really makes a difference. Hope the world summint on the Information society II in Tunesia will be another great show of FOSS adoption.
Question is, can Free Software really stem the tide when other sustainal development projects are struggling so much?"
Yes, it can. OSS development models can also solve problems where traditional development can't. Such as: localized software for non-latin languages.
Another great potential use of free software could happen in the field of maschine translation.