well my apologies for missing it then:) I don't mind not trusting hedge fund managers, but it is important to look at what's going on here. Something that is almost explicitly anti (a bad thing - antifud in this case), should not be automatically assumed to be a bad thing as well.
Here's how it works. The patents of OIN members and licensees are licensed to each other royalty-free in perpetuity. Even on a sale, the license remains in force for all pre-existing members/licensees. If you are a member/licensee of OIN prior to the closing on the Novell deal, then, you are covered. The proposed closing date is January 23rd, so you still have time to join OIN and get the benefit of the license to those patents. Then, if Microsoft shows up at your door, you can say, "Thanks, but no thanks. I already have a license." So here's what it all adds up to, by my reading: if ever you were thinking of joining the Open Invention Network, this is the sensible time to do it, as long as you get it done before this sale closes and that door shuts with respect to the Novell patents.
So yeah, keep saying that a hedge fund manager is somehow untrustworthy, and I'll stick with being in the clear to give the finger to MS and SCO while they spread all the FUD they want.
Nuclear plants have significant long term impacts. We can always replace a solar cell. You can't so easily get rid of the nuclear waste from a plant, and even when buried in concrete requires significant long term maintenance costs.
Solar won't become economical? Is that a joke? Have you looked at how far solar has come in the last...5, 10 years? That's not exactly a long time. Building more nuclear plants in the immediate future is not a solution when solar is getting pretty significantly efficient.
if they never tried to make this ridiculous paywall they'd have a: more money in their pockets and b: people wouldn't be blocked from crap that either they do or accidentally do.
looks like Zironic has corrected my statement, so I suppose all campaigning is banned, but I have heard that almost every election season is violent. What is different now than every Thai election in that sense?
You don't hear apple saying shit about "Defending" anything. This is all claims of "Samsung stole from us" which = offensive = patent trolling. If it was "UI design lifting" it'd be a copyright lawsuit not a patent lawsuit.
if this were true wouldn't all campaigning for the last 24 hours be banned instead of "hurr lets block facebook/twitter"? Sounds pretty specious to me.
this magically assumes that last minute campaigns are somehow different if from twitter/facebook versus doing them in public. Won't people do these last minute campaigning anyway?
The comedy here is: Google wins all around. They would have either a: gotten everything on the cheap at the stalking horse price, and also knows which patents exist and could now push for them all to be re-examined.
The truth is, every company who took this is an unethical, anticompetitive company that has given up on innovation. Aside from google who among them says "this is for defensive use and not to go after competitors?" That's your answer: None of them.
the month to month SLA part is entirely comedy though. If they average less than 99% uptime over a year, even if it's one particular bad month, people are going to drop this service instantly at that point. A consumer may be stupid enough to forget month to month, but a business won't.
until it hits the highest courts in the UK that is, which would maybe strike this down - or it could go to the EU, in which case it probably would be struck down.
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well my apologies for missing it then :) I don't mind not trusting hedge fund managers, but it is important to look at what's going on here. Something that is almost explicitly anti (a bad thing - antifud in this case), should not be automatically assumed to be a bad thing as well.
if you think having an ex hedge fund manager own the OIN has something to do with why you wouldn't trust it, I'd like to remind you of a: the list of licensees (which is huge - google and redhat for two significant names -microsoft and apple quite clearly absent) and B: If you had a fucking clue you'd have signed up with OIN last year to prevent SCO/MS/Attachmate threats in the first place.
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So yeah, keep saying that a hedge fund manager is somehow untrustworthy, and I'll stick with being in the clear to give the finger to MS and SCO while they spread all the FUD they want.
I've found myself a lot more satisfied with fedora than ubuntu due to the shit which is defined as ubuntu's current UI.
I don't get why open innovation network wasn't mentioned? That's pretty much defensive patent licensing for free, and clearly defined.
absolutely. I also agree with the commenter below, get rid of empathy and go back to pidgin, and then we'll be a step closer to ubuntu not being crap.
Nuclear plants have significant long term impacts. We can always replace a solar cell. You can't so easily get rid of the nuclear waste from a plant, and even when buried in concrete requires significant long term maintenance costs.
So no, spending more on nuke plants aside from fixing the maintenance that we don't even do is a horrible and shortsighted idea.
Solar won't become economical? Is that a joke? Have you looked at how far solar has come in the last...5, 10 years? That's not exactly a long time. Building more nuclear plants in the immediate future is not a solution when solar is getting pretty significantly efficient.
google is worse than facebook? have you ever seen what facebook does with your data even when you delete your profile?
nice though, we love the whole "GOOGLE IS EVIL" line. keep trottin out the lies all you want.
This is correct. Traffic hit a giant decline post-paywall , not that you need to be a genius to figure that out if you look at last time as well.
So yes, more could have been spent on being a good website that covers real news.
let's get back to the REAL irony:
if they never tried to make this ridiculous paywall they'd have a: more money in their pockets and b: people wouldn't be blocked from crap that either they do or accidentally do.
which one do you think is better for business?
looks like Zironic has corrected my statement, so I suppose all campaigning is banned, but I have heard that almost every election season is violent. What is different now than every Thai election in that sense?
No, apple is suing samsung because they are working on android which is a competitor to iphone. What else do you call going for the ITC loophole and other anticompetitive moves ?
You don't hear apple saying shit about "Defending" anything. This is all claims of "Samsung stole from us" which = offensive = patent trolling. If it was "UI design lifting" it'd be a copyright lawsuit not a patent lawsuit.
This is not fucking difficult.
if this were true wouldn't all campaigning for the last 24 hours be banned instead of "hurr lets block facebook/twitter"? Sounds pretty specious to me.
this magically assumes that last minute campaigns are somehow different if from twitter/facebook versus doing them in public. Won't people do these last minute campaigning anyway?
hello? suing samsung?
that's not trademark defense. That's apple going after android.
well my typing sucks, but (corrected) it was either a: cheap patents or b: they know which can be invalidated. my sentence didn't make much sense.
Okay comedy troll who said bitcoin is the only form? Cash is basically unable to be traced, too.
The comedy here is: Google wins all around. They would have either a: gotten everything on the cheap at the stalking horse price, and also knows which patents exist and could now push for them all to be re-examined.
The truth is, every company who took this is an unethical, anticompetitive company that has given up on innovation. Aside from google who among them says "this is for defensive use and not to go after competitors?" That's your answer: None of them.
the month to month SLA part is entirely comedy though. If they average less than 99% uptime over a year, even if it's one particular bad month, people are going to drop this service instantly at that point. A consumer may be stupid enough to forget month to month, but a business won't.
Pretty easy to go from CC -> untrackable currencies in a variety of forms. So not really.
I have a feeling we might end up with flash+PCM combinations in some form.
it's humorous, but it's just a market change.
social engineering, and pfishing are probably a whole lot more "financially feasible", much more results for less effort.
I mean would profits from info gleaned via a SQL injection be really considered a "hack" these days if it was a script kiddie?
not quite, whether you are referring to legalzoom or the company suing them.
in irony, suing legalzoom and referencing them on slashdot is probably providing them quite the boom in business.
until it hits the highest courts in the UK that is, which would maybe strike this down - or it could go to the EU, in which case it probably would be struck down.
still waiting for something to be mentioned that office365 can do over google, not hearing anything so far.
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