There have been a lot of people who state their opinion's such as "..we don't believe in patents, we should not use them" or "..we should not play back at their game", but regardless, they need to really sit back and look at the situation.
Everyone is beefing up their patent porfolio's except the open source community. I am a person who after almost 2 decades came from the M$ camp to the linux camp and i understand both forms of logic, but the truth is patents are bad, but they are here to stay. Yes, patents suck, especially for IP, but they are not going away. The corporations have their hands too deep in the pockets of the gov't to even consider reform at this point in time. The conclusion? Well, the conclusion does not mean run out and patent every idea you have and give it to a foundation to safeguard for public use, but it means that maybe it's really not a half bad idea that novell is doing this because in the end if you take too hard of a approach to refusing to touch a patent you will get steamrolled by MS, RIAA, MPAA and every other corportaion that would love to patent the living hell out of your life.
I would rather know that everything is protected from attacks time being and let things naturally work themselves out. Think about it, if the open source community can keep from getting steam rolled for just 4-5 more years, we all win.
GOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLL!
I think this just became the highlight of my day. Seriously, im glad the wanting-to-rule-the-world corporations finally got a nice kick after totally abusing their size.
Joking aside, the only serious patent reform will come with issues like this. It's somewhat amusing that they made a technological advance, but because kodak had some patent hiding in the corner that vaguely resembled what they made now they must pay the price.
It's unfortunate that it takes things like this to actually wake up companies to stop being such idiots and actually realize that "patents are bad." Im sure it was fun for M$ or sun prior to this whole ordeal when they were the ones patent chasing and building a bigger patent arshnall but now patent reform may have just had it's first leg born...
There is definitely merit to that statement. I have a NEC 1760V-BK which is a 16ms LCD as well and there is no lag in *any* game. There is no lag from mouse movements or any of the latest games, doom 3 or ut2004 play perfect and look better on my LCD then they do on my buddies CRT. I've tried to make it lag doing everything, as of yet i have not been able to;) So it's probably just your LCD being cheaply made.
The moral of the story? Don't buy a cheap LCD, if you do, you were better off with a CRT.
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There have been a lot of people who state their opinion's such as "..we don't believe in patents, we should not use them" or "..we should not play back at their game", but regardless, they need to really sit back and look at the situation.
Everyone is beefing up their patent porfolio's except the open source community. I am a person who after almost 2 decades came from the M$ camp to the linux camp and i understand both forms of logic, but the truth is patents are bad, but they are here to stay. Yes, patents suck, especially for IP, but they are not going away. The corporations have their hands too deep in the pockets of the gov't to even consider reform at this point in time. The conclusion? Well, the conclusion does not mean run out and patent every idea you have and give it to a foundation to safeguard for public use, but it means that maybe it's really not a half bad idea that novell is doing this because in the end if you take too hard of a approach to refusing to touch a patent you will get steamrolled by MS, RIAA, MPAA and every other corportaion that would love to patent the living hell out of your life.
I would rather know that everything is protected from attacks time being and let things naturally work themselves out. Think about it, if the open source community can keep from getting steam rolled for just 4-5 more years, we all win.
GOOOOOOAAAALLLLLLL! I think this just became the highlight of my day. Seriously, im glad the wanting-to-rule-the-world corporations finally got a nice kick after totally abusing their size.
Joking aside, the only serious patent reform will come with issues like this. It's somewhat amusing that they made a technological advance, but because kodak had some patent hiding in the corner that vaguely resembled what they made now they must pay the price.
It's unfortunate that it takes things like this to actually wake up companies to stop being such idiots and actually realize that "patents are bad." Im sure it was fun for M$ or sun prior to this whole ordeal when they were the ones patent chasing and building a bigger patent arshnall but now patent reform may have just had it's first leg born...
There is definitely merit to that statement. I have a NEC 1760V-BK which is a 16ms LCD as well and there is no lag in *any* game. There is no lag from mouse movements or any of the latest games, doom 3 or ut2004 play perfect and look better on my LCD then they do on my buddies CRT. I've tried to make it lag doing everything, as of yet i have not been able to ;) So it's probably just your LCD being cheaply made.
The moral of the story? Don't buy a cheap LCD, if you do, you were better off with a CRT.