How about if someone wants to build a three-storey Lego-Brick on their property, all the way to the fence, while every other house in the street is a small country-style cottage?
doesn't this undermine all you slashdotters' non-conformist open source anti-U.S. governmental ideals?
if you reword your statement a little it makes the whole idea you present sound rediculous. Just say "Should someone be able to make a house that looks radically different than everyone elses?" Well of course they should be able to, it's supposed to be a free country for crying out loud.
blame blame blame, let's just blame everybody but ourselves. maybe it's YOUR fault for not making any contributions to human innovation yourself.
as much as people bash patents, it would probably be worse without them. just imagine what it would be like without patents. it would be hell, and although the patent system is extremely flawed, until someone fixes it you can't just get rid of it. without the patent system, every invention made by a small group of people or ONE inventer would just be stolen and sold by a large company.
that kind of copying and stealing of ideas would discourage independant innovaters more than they are now. they wouldn't bother inventing anything at all, because they would know someone would steal the idea and they wouldn't see a dime out of it.
another round of microsoft bashing.
even though you know you'd do the exact same thing if you were microsoft. why would microsoft support unix antivirus?
I'm really sick of browser wars. Pick whatever browser you want then shut the hell up. Who cares about market share figures? All browsers view web pages just fine, and the only real differences nowadays are things like tabbed browsing and other features of the programs.
This isn't like the old days where compatibility was a real issue in the Netscape vs. IE wars. It's the same internet and all the browsers support the same standards.
Not only that but besides Opera, all web browsers are pretty much all free.
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How about if someone wants to build a three-storey Lego-Brick on their property, all the way to the fence, while every other house in the street is a small country-style cottage? doesn't this undermine all you slashdotters' non-conformist open source anti-U.S. governmental ideals? if you reword your statement a little it makes the whole idea you present sound rediculous. Just say "Should someone be able to make a house that looks radically different than everyone elses?" Well of course they should be able to, it's supposed to be a free country for crying out loud.
blame blame blame, let's just blame everybody but ourselves. maybe it's YOUR fault for not making any contributions to human innovation yourself.
as much as people bash patents, it would probably be worse without them. just imagine what it would be like without patents. it would be hell, and although the patent system is extremely flawed, until someone fixes it you can't just get rid of it. without the patent system, every invention made by a small group of people or ONE inventer would just be stolen and sold by a large company.
that kind of copying and stealing of ideas would discourage independant innovaters more than they are now. they wouldn't bother inventing anything at all, because they would know someone would steal the idea and they wouldn't see a dime out of it.
surely, microsoft wouldn't ignore the norwegian goverment officials market.
this will really make microsoft open up their formats, this is going to make them lose about 50 users!
another round of microsoft bashing. even though you know you'd do the exact same thing if you were microsoft. why would microsoft support unix antivirus?
I'm really sick of browser wars. Pick whatever browser you want then shut the hell up. Who cares about market share figures? All browsers view web pages just fine, and the only real differences nowadays are things like tabbed browsing and other features of the programs.
This isn't like the old days where compatibility was a real issue in the Netscape vs. IE wars. It's the same internet and all the browsers support the same standards.
Not only that but besides Opera, all web browsers are pretty much all free.
i love how IBM's thinkpads still look nearly the same as they did 15 years ago and they still look cool.