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Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 05:38 PM EST
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If you have a sense of irony, you will enjoy this bit of news. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has just announced that they are considering Linux and Java for a new information technology and telecommunications services contract to replace the current contract when it is finished in about a year. This announcement follows SCO's ugly letter to Congress, so I think we may assume that the letter didn't have the effect hoped for in all agencies: "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officials are looking toward Linux and Java technologies as they begin planning for a comprehensive new information technology and telecommunications services contract.
"USPTO officials announced last week they would solicit information from industry on the scope and type of agreement to replace the agency’s current contract for systems development and maintenance services. . . .
"USPTO officials have indicated that they are interested in an innovative contracting approach and in technologies such as Linux, J2EE/Java, IBM Corp. WebSphere and Java Studio Developer." They say that before asking for proposals from vendors, they will hold a vendor briefing on February 11.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 05:53 PM EST |
Wow! Amazing news. Now can Linus add some kernel tweaks to auto-reject
crap-patents ??
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| Authored by: pixitha on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:05 PM EST |
so is this saying that the USPTO's way of saying that SCO's patent bull
crap is all exactly what it is?
bull crap?
should make things more interesting..
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:06 PM EST |
| LOL!!! [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: RedBarchetta on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:11 PM EST |
Linux I understand, but Java? I know I am going to get
some flack for this,
but I quit using Java months ago for
web development because it's slower than
molasses on a
cold winter day.
Apache/PHP/Mysql is what they REALLY
should be
considering. It may not have the massive library support,
but it
seems to be ample for web development.
Just my humble
opinion... :-)
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| Authored by: maxhrk on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:17 PM EST |
Funny, Linux usually probably aim at top first then down. (in other word, CEO to
user level i think). And MS aim at USER to CEO.
So Am i wrong or right? It just that i read on ESR's document about bazaar
thing and other more that i forgot talking about related to TOP to DOWN stuff.
excuse my ranting.
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Sincerely,
Richard M.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: maxhrk on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:27 PM EST |
One more thing, I wonder if it is possible to add FAQs section for those
confused people about the deal between NOVELL and SCO about this.
for instance
Q: I thought SCOG still own all rights, copyright, [etc] on UNIX
A: blah blah blah.
something like that. :)
Just for a thought,
Richard
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Sincerely,
Richard M.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:34 PM EST |
I know this is off-topic here, but I can't find any on-topic place to post this
question - what happened with the Red Hat lawsuit? The timeline ends in
November, with nothing beyond that... ??[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: edsuom on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 06:38 PM EST |
I'm a patent agent registered to practice before the USPTO. I switched to
Linux about a year ago and am never going back to Windows for more than what I
keep running in VMware to do my speech recognition and scanning. Hopefully the
need for even that will go away soon.
I'm also the author of an
open-source software project, http://privaria.org. To many people, the idea of a
patent professional being the author of an open-source software package is like
a butcher being a vegetarian. Sure, I represent clients who choose to limit
others’ access to their inventions, hardware and software alike. I also have
several patents and pending applications of my own for such inventions. But I
also believe it is appropriate for owners of intellectual property (and that
includes authors of open-source software) to choose to give the public
access to their property, just as landowners sometimes choose to give their
property over to some public good such as parks and nature
preserves.
Although both RMS and our buddy Darl seem to disagree, I
believe there is a place for both in our legal universe.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 08:13 PM EST |
Scroll down this page to the story (see below):
<www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html>
story:
2004.01.10, Saturday :: Radio interview: Kiss VS MPlayer
Briefly: Kiss seems to have 'borrowed' MPlayer's code but has not
used the GPL.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 27 2004 @ 11:27 PM EST |
Well I am touched by the irony. The first application for UNIX was in preparing
patent applications at Bell Labs.
Darl will no doubt respond to this announcement with a claim that BOTH the USPTO
code and data are filled with trillions of lines of SCO's valuable IP (NUMA,
RCU, SMP) and that the USPTO is an unauthorized derivative.
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"Perhaps the lesson from this is that the first rule when dealing with the
devil is: don't," Dave McCrabb President SCO Server Software Division
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| Authored by: James on Wednesday, January 28 2004 @ 03:10 AM EST |
CGI is a standard, and it is used everyday by millions.
Anytime a perl script (or PHP or Python for that matter) gets executed via
Apache or whatever, you are using CGI.
I am doing a website right now with PERL, and at work I use Python (via Zope) as
our central development platform.
CGI is hardly dead.[ Reply to This | # ]
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- OT But... - Authored by: James on Wednesday, January 28 2004 @ 03:16 AM EST
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| Authored by: Alastair on Wednesday, January 28 2004 @ 04:39 AM EST |
It's rather ironic that the organisation that poses the single greatest
threat to both Open Source and small business is actively considering
using an
operating system whose usefulness it may very well harm by
granting
inappropriate patents.
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| Authored by: coolmos on Wednesday, January 28 2004 @ 04:51 AM EST |
This is very, VERY dangerous.
In Darls universe, if Linux contains his IP and the USPTO uses Linux, he'll
soon claim all patents to be his.
In reality, he couldn't even get a patent on wiping his own butt.[ Reply to This | # ]
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