I think that it's good that we see companies more involved and interested in tightening up their security. Most companies just buy expensive firewalls and other systems to protect their data, but ignore other obvious threats like someone just walking into their offices and sitting down at a unused workstation and browsing around the companies network.
Security is multi-layered and a continuous process, that means even if they went through a security audit and everything was ok, they shouldn't stop to improve their security,..there's always a fast-paced race between those who protect and those who will try to pass that protection.
Hope this story gives other companies which don't care about security a real reason to make an audit in the very near future.
"I just hope M$ and friends do continue with this bizarre business in such an obvious way, that they will always cripple efforts to introduce software patents in the EU."
I'm an european too, but I still don't see how this helps us defend against software patents in the EU. If it continues...well the EU might just say "if the USA is doing it..why should we be any lesser of a hellhole for small developers?"
As a conclusion, software patents are bad whereever they are, but I'm still not pretty sure what the root which should be eliminated is...the government thinking as the means to software patents or microsoft as a so called leader in the patent fashion which seems not to change by season.
If you're a small developer isn't there any legal method of fighting these patents?
Isn't there anyone out there alarming the governments to the threats of such a poor patent legislation? or are the governments just not listening because microsoft and other such companies produce a lot of money in taxes?
This monopoly is soo bad for the small developer...like microsoft saying.."sell us your very innovative idea, or we'll patent it and sue you":|
It's actually soo amusing...why doesn't someone patent 'patenting everything'?...the thing that microsoft seems to be doing. This patent game has gone far beyond normality and now it's just very funny and sad.
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I think that it's good that we see companies more involved and interested in tightening up their security. Most companies just buy expensive firewalls and other systems to protect their data, but ignore other obvious threats like someone just walking into their offices and sitting down at a unused workstation and browsing around the companies network. Security is multi-layered and a continuous process, that means even if they went through a security audit and everything was ok, they shouldn't stop to improve their security,..there's always a fast-paced race between those who protect and those who will try to pass that protection. Hope this story gives other companies which don't care about security a real reason to make an audit in the very near future.
"I just hope M$ and friends do continue with this bizarre business in such an obvious way, that they will always cripple efforts to introduce software patents in the EU." I'm an european too, but I still don't see how this helps us defend against software patents in the EU. If it continues...well the EU might just say "if the USA is doing it..why should we be any lesser of a hellhole for small developers?" As a conclusion, software patents are bad whereever they are, but I'm still not pretty sure what the root which should be eliminated is...the government thinking as the means to software patents or microsoft as a so called leader in the patent fashion which seems not to change by season.
If you're a small developer isn't there any legal method of fighting these patents? Isn't there anyone out there alarming the governments to the threats of such a poor patent legislation? or are the governments just not listening because microsoft and other such companies produce a lot of money in taxes? This monopoly is soo bad for the small developer...like microsoft saying.."sell us your very innovative idea, or we'll patent it and sue you" :|
It's actually soo amusing...why doesn't someone patent 'patenting everything'?...the thing that microsoft seems to be doing. This patent game has gone far beyond normality and now it's just very funny and sad.