Some of you reading the parent post might wonder why we Marines are so resistant to Spiffy New Gear. This is because it's hard enough to keep the more basic stuff in working condition e.g. NVGs, radios, hummers, M-16s (!). Nothing kills combat effectiveness worse than a dead radio or a blown up engine on a hummer. Oftentimes, if you break or lose an item or a portion of its SL3, it can be a *long time* before that stuff gets replaced. Remember that in any large scale endeavor, "what's important is simple, what's simple is hard"
On the bright side, DragonEye and its kin are exactly the kind of gear that Marines have been asking for, and now we're getting it in a surprisingly timely fasion. Lately the Corps has put good emphasis on getting new gear out to the battalions as quickly as possible. While mistakes are made (MOLLE) there's also good gear coming out of the initiative (new cammies, boots, polarfleece!). I'd rather have good gear in my hands now over somewhat better gear delivered too late.
I recently converted to Debian and was glad to see distributions such as Corel and Progeny that are based on Debian actually give back to the community. Unfortunately I never tried their versions because I knew that just this sort of thing would happen. While giving back to the community is a good thing, the focus must be on making the product generate cash flow. Sometimes it seemed to me that the project leaders had more religious zeal than business acumen. That's great as long as the money's there, but now it seems these companies have bled all their cash away, leaving the community right where it was before.
No matter what gets said here about feature bloat and endless delays, Mozilla is just the coolest and most ambitious browser out there. At this rate it's well on its way to becoming the Emacs of the browser world, and it might even be there now. I've been using it as my main browser for god-knows-how-long. It's been fascinating to watch it evolve from the early milestone releases up to now.
Hell, Mozilla's never going to be finished, and I don't really care to see it finished either. I'd have to find a new religion.
It's refreshing to see somebody who appreciates Caldera's move, instead of poo-pooing it and using it to jab at the company that actually bothered to change the license.
There will be others who appreciate Caldera's decision in due time.
If Bezos had simply obtained the patent, and kept it in the company's portfolio for defense, then he would have some merit in that point. But he took B&N to court, and stopped them from using the "1-click" system. He used that patent offensively, not defensively.
What you are saying, then, is that it's okay for Amazon to use the patent as a bluff, but not to actively defend itself in court. A good offense is part of any viable defense.
(And as far as was mentioned, B&N wasn't throwing Amazon any legal punches before Amazon did).
Yes, but instead of coming up with something better than one click shopping, they instead tried a lame workaround that still violated Amazon's patent, and now they're in court for it.
If B&N wants to come out on top, why don't they just come up with something better than one-click? Could the solution be just as obvious in retrospect?
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Some of you reading the parent post might wonder why we Marines are so resistant to Spiffy New Gear. This is because it's hard enough to keep the more basic stuff in working condition e.g. NVGs, radios, hummers, M-16s (!). Nothing kills combat effectiveness worse than a dead radio or a blown up engine on a hummer. Oftentimes, if you break or lose an item or a portion of its SL3, it can be a *long time* before that stuff gets replaced. Remember that in any large scale endeavor, "what's important is simple, what's simple is hard"
On the bright side, DragonEye and its kin are exactly the kind of gear that Marines have been asking for, and now we're getting it in a surprisingly timely fasion. Lately the Corps has put good emphasis on getting new gear out to the battalions as quickly as possible. While mistakes are made (MOLLE) there's also good gear coming out of the initiative (new cammies, boots, polarfleece!). I'd rather have good gear in my hands now over somewhat better gear delivered too late.
I recently converted to Debian and was glad to see distributions such as Corel and Progeny that are based on Debian actually give back to the community. Unfortunately I never tried their versions because I knew that just this sort of thing would happen. While giving back to the community is a good thing, the focus must be on making the product generate cash flow. Sometimes it seemed to me that the project leaders had more religious zeal than business acumen. That's great as long as the money's there, but now it seems these companies have bled all their cash away, leaving the community right where it was before.
No matter what gets said here about feature bloat and endless delays, Mozilla is just the coolest and most ambitious browser out there. At this rate it's well on its way to becoming the Emacs of the browser world, and it might even be there now. I've been using it as my main browser for god-knows-how-long. It's been fascinating to watch it evolve from the early milestone releases up to now.
Hell, Mozilla's never going to be finished, and I don't really care to see it finished either. I'd have to find a new religion.
Hey, that's great!
It's refreshing to see somebody who appreciates Caldera's move, instead of poo-pooing it and using it to jab at the company that actually bothered to change the license.
There will be others who appreciate Caldera's decision in due time.
What you are saying, then, is that it's okay for Amazon to use the patent as a bluff, but not to actively defend itself in court. A good offense is part of any viable defense.
Yes, but instead of coming up with something better than one click shopping, they instead tried a lame workaround that still violated Amazon's patent, and now they're in court for it.
If B&N wants to come out on top, why don't they just come up with something better than one-click? Could the solution be just as obvious in retrospect?
Mr. Grenade doesn't become your friend until after you pull the pin.
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