A few years ago, I played a round of golf with a couple of lawyers who explained to me that getting judgments was easy. The hard part is collecting on them.
The photographer may have won a $19K judgment but that doesn't mean he'll be getting it, especially from a company that would rather steal/violate copyright his image than pay for it.
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What, with all these newfangled GUI's, my toothbrush requires a memory upgrade.
A lot of message boards and other apps have similar facility. However, I doubt anybody has a patent on it yet. If MS has a patent, it can use it to intimidate the competition, despite all the prior art. As for the narrowness of the patent, that is an issue to be determined by the courts. If you have a patent for this technology then you have a legal basis for a lawsuit. It'll still cost beaucoup bux to overturn the patent. IBM could overturn it, but not a start-up company cannot.
Who wins? Innovation(tm) does. It's a blow for innovation(tm) which the Justice Department with its anachronistic concepts of anti-trust could never grasp.:) (tm)
Clue Alert, Clue Alert (avert thy gaze, lest the scales fall from thine eyes): Have you read your EULA recently? That is the Gulag of which I speak. Sure you can look out the Windows, but it's still a prison.
And furthermore, those goosestomping minions of Redmond....
I'm not sure how one can compare anything as democratizing as Open Source with a system as control oriented as Communism. Propriety software is a much better fit for Communism than Open Source. The great unwashed users of proprietary software have little say or ability to alter second rate software from the unresponsive bureaucracies deep within the Kremlin of Redmond. Transparency and flexibility are traits found in free markets and free software, not the Gulags of proprietary licenses.
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A few years ago, I played a round of golf with a couple of lawyers who explained to me that getting judgments was easy. The hard part is collecting on them. The photographer may have won a $19K judgment but that doesn't mean he'll be getting it, especially from a company that would rather steal/violate copyright his image than pay for it.
What, with all these newfangled GUI's, my toothbrush requires a memory upgrade.
Neither of whom can get laid.
And, so, like, if God and Superman got into a fight ....
He "willingly" signed it as a condition of employment. These types of contracts are not enforceable in other states.
A lot of message boards and other apps have similar facility. However, I doubt anybody has a patent on it yet. If MS has a patent, it can use it to intimidate the competition, despite all the prior art. As for the narrowness of the patent, that is an issue to be determined by the courts. If you have a patent for this technology then you have a legal basis for a lawsuit. It'll still cost beaucoup bux to overturn the patent. IBM could overturn it, but not a start-up company cannot.
:) (tm)
Who wins? Innovation(tm) does. It's a blow for innovation(tm) which the Justice Department with its anachronistic concepts of anti-trust could never grasp.
I guess so but that I do irrational things when people point firearms or armies of lawyers at me.
War is for size queens?
Gay indeed.
I don't think it's their egos that are too short.
I ask for the chili, but request that they hold the finger.
True, but you can make up for the ketchup shortfall by taking four times as many napkins as you really need.
I take it you're from Tennessee.
The same ways we know that it exists now.
Unlikely. The written text still exists so the process of erasing history would have to include destroying them and all existing copies as well.
You try keeping ganja net above 45% availability! f-f-f-flamebait flambé
Normally, when you say, "get all [Pop Culture Reference] on me", the reference is not to the person getting the de-snotted by the mob.
Clue Alert, Clue Alert (avert thy gaze, lest the scales fall from thine eyes): Have you read your EULA recently? That is the Gulag of which I speak. Sure you can look out the Windows, but it's still a prison. And furthermore, those goosestomping minions of Redmond ....
Umm, you are aware that Reginald Denny was the truck driver that got the shit beaten out of him in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, right?
Obviously, Enderle is referring to people who carry real light sabers.
Q: What is a Communist?
A: A fascist who thinks he's an economist.
-Old Joke
I'm not sure how one can compare anything as democratizing as Open Source with a system as control oriented as Communism. Propriety software is a much better fit for Communism than Open Source. The great unwashed users of proprietary software have little say or ability to alter second rate software from the unresponsive bureaucracies deep within the Kremlin of Redmond. Transparency and flexibility are traits found in free markets and free software, not the Gulags of proprietary licenses.
the answer to the second part of the poll would be, "but, their speech patterns are wooden."
No barrier is too high when it comes to improving my Counter-Strike experience.
Fortunately, it reassembles itself when the temperature rises.
This has all the makings of a fat lady on stilts.