Start purchasing natural gas from Newfoundland, Canada by build LNG tankers or an undersea pipeline from Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to England. Problem solved.
The reason why research is slowly grinding to a halt in the United States is because the people of the United States have finaly realized that you do not have to spend billions of dollars to get the answers to 'life the universe and every thing else". Just go to the holy book of your choice. The answers are all there.
What is required for patent cases is Judges that are trained technologists in various fields instead of lawyers. So your patent case would be heard by a Judge that was knowlageable in the field in question instead of just the intricicies of the law.
Run the new one in parallel, same port just different host, and let the user decide which one to use, which is what they do now. Eventually everyone will be using the new system.
Actually I was referring to managements tendency to hire based on the 'tool of the month' as opposed to knowing how to do anything useful. Where in fact they should hire you based on what you can do and know since learning to use a tool, generally speaking, is easy.
But by there own admission there is no coninent not to sue:
"Our agreement with Microsoft is focused on our customers, and does not include a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft to Novell (or, for that matter, from Novell to Microsoft). Novell's customers receive a covenant not to sue directly from Microsoft." [Novell FAQ]
and Novelll says that Suse Linux does not infring on any patents:
Q3. Is this agreement an admission that Linux products from Novell infringe Microsoft patents?
No. Patent concerns did not drive our entry into this agreement. Novell makes no admission that its Linux and open source offerings infringe on any other parties' patents. Our position has not changed as a result of this agreement....[Novell FAQ]
Read the press release, it is not a patent deal, that would put them in violation of the GPL. Instead it is a conenant not to sue.
So if I understand correctly. Microsoft is admitting that their software violates some of Novell's patents.
However, instead of protecting themselves and their customers by doing a cross licensing deal with Novell, Microsoft is keeping themselves and their customers at risk by entering into a non binding revocable 'covenant ' instead.
I wonder how well this will sit Microsoft's shareholders knowing that this risk exists and it is not being addressed permanently when such an option exists.
Microsoft will never sue any Linux user or Linux distribution. They can't afford to, because as soon as they do they will, eventually, have to specify exactly what patents are being infringed and where the infringing code is. At which point the entire Open Source community will start looking for prior art to invalidate those patents in the same manner as they researched and debunked SCO's copyright claims against the Linux operating system.
However, should any of these patents be found to be contained in a Linux distribution the community will rewrite the offending code to remove the patented material. The result being that in short order the contents of a Linux distribution will become patent free and once this happens Microsoft will no longer be able to hold this threat over any Linux user's or Linux distribution's head.
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ODF is a data format definition not an application. It does not have usabilitiy issues, applications do.
If that is the case, will they soon be taxing player earnings from board games as well?
I replaced this for the 'beep' in Windows once. Was funny for a few days.
Why use such a bizzare method to kill someone that can be traced so easly. Why not just make him a mugging or hit and run victim.
Start purchasing natural gas from Newfoundland, Canada by build LNG tankers or an undersea pipeline from Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, to England. Problem solved.
The reason why research is slowly grinding to a halt in the United States is because the people of the United States have finaly realized that you do not have to spend billions of dollars to get the answers to 'life the universe and every thing else". Just go to the holy book of your choice. The answers are all there.
A good read...and reread...and rereread....
Pitty they will be patented. I mean even if they are in the public domain. Someone will try.
Violation of copyright. Lambchop will sue.
What is required for patent cases is Judges that are trained technologists in various fields instead of lawyers. So your patent case would be heard by a Judge that was knowlageable in the field in question instead of just the intricicies of the law.
I do have kids and I came from a large family. I guess we are just better behaved.
So when was the last time you say a child use the family laptop for a soccer ball? Grow up please.
Silly this patent is different, it is being done with a Computer.
You mean like the master key in a fifth normal form database (binary normalized) data base.
Run the new one in parallel, same port just different host, and let the user decide which one to use, which is what they do now. Eventually everyone will be using the new system.
Actually I was referring to managements tendency to hire based on the 'tool of the month' as opposed to knowing how to do anything useful. Where in fact they should hire you based on what you can do and know since learning to use a tool, generally speaking, is easy.
Boss: Can you use a hammer? Worker: Yes. Boss: Great. Now build me a house.
Please note, we did not evolve form Chimpanzees. Both Humans and Chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor.
The reason is quite simple. It takes more money to raise a child than to bury a person.
Did you expected a different result?
The paper will be a different colour of white.
The fonts used will be different.
The clauses will be renumbered.
It will not have Novell's name in it.
The monitary amounts will be different.
But by there own admission there is no coninent not to sue: "Our agreement with Microsoft is focused on our customers, and does not include a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft to Novell (or, for that matter, from Novell to Microsoft). Novell's customers receive a covenant not to sue directly from Microsoft." [Novell FAQ] and Novelll says that Suse Linux does not infring on any patents: Q3. Is this agreement an admission that Linux products from Novell infringe Microsoft patents? No. Patent concerns did not drive our entry into this agreement. Novell makes no admission that its Linux and open source offerings infringe on any other parties' patents. Our position has not changed as a result of this agreement. ...[Novell FAQ]
The Indians will never be allowed to go there as the United States will just put the names of their astronauts on the "No-Fly" list.
Read the press release, it is not a patent deal, that would put them in violation of the GPL. Instead it is a conenant not to sue.
So if I understand correctly. Microsoft is admitting that their software violates some of Novell's patents.
However, instead of protecting themselves and their customers by doing a cross licensing deal with Novell, Microsoft is keeping themselves and their customers at risk by entering into a non binding revocable 'covenant ' instead.
I wonder how well this will sit Microsoft's shareholders knowing that this risk exists and it is not being addressed permanently when such an option exists.
Microsoft will never sue any Linux user or Linux distribution. They can't afford to, because as soon as they do they will, eventually, have to specify exactly what patents are being infringed and where the infringing code is. At which point the entire Open Source community will start looking for prior art to invalidate those patents in the same manner as they researched and debunked SCO's copyright claims against the Linux operating system. However, should any of these patents be found to be contained in a Linux distribution the community will rewrite the offending code to remove the patented material. The result being that in short order the contents of a Linux distribution will become patent free and once this happens Microsoft will no longer be able to hold this threat over any Linux user's or Linux distribution's head.