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funny
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 05:23 PM EDT
google 'sap hana' and the first hit is, wait for it.....
'oracle exalytics' @ oracle.com/Exalytics!!!!!!

sap.com/hana is the 3rd

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Einer Elhauge piece
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 06:04 PM EDT
These claims by Elhauge, as supposedly undermining the arguments of the
opponents of Obamacare's mandate, have been pretty much debunked. The mandate
for possession of a musket for those of militia age/gender come not from the
Commerce Clause but from the Congress' powers to regulate the militia. And
there was no requirement for medical insurance among sailors, it was instead a
requirement for the inclusion of medical chests upon merchant shipping - and the
historical purpose was to support a robust merchant marine crew population as
that was the recruiting source for the Navy.

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Lawyers and Bankers... a match made in hell
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 01 2012 @ 10:48 PM EDT
Wall Street finance whizes teaming up with razorsharp lawyers to bankroll
litigation. Wow.
The ramifications of this is mindboggling - not least because there doesn't seem
any way to stop this madness.

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Motorola Mobility Defeats Apple ‘Finger Swipe’ Patent Claim
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 12:16 AM EDT
It still boggles my mind that a simple action can be an essential claim of a
patent. I suppose, somewhere in the patent office's database, there might be a
patent for a medical device that has "deep breathing" or "heart
beating" as an essential claim of the patent.

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Motorola wins German ban on Windows 7, Xbox 360
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 07:36 AM EDT
http://www.zdnet.co.uk /news/intellectual- property/2012/05/02/motorola-wins-german-ban-on-windows-7- x box-360-40155142/?s_cid=938

The money quote:

"The video patents are essential to the H.264 codec but, as with all its FRAND-protected patents, Motorola wants 2.25 percent of the full sale price of any product that uses them. Potential licensees of Motorola patents, such as Microsoft and Apple, have said this is excessive."

No so nice when you are on the other side of things hey Microsoft?

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Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:04 AM EDT

Anticipating :-)

Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany

Somebody should send msft a link to webm, a format specially designed to avoid these kind of problems.

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Functionality of computer program & programming language can't be protected by copyright
Authored by: hairbear on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:47 AM EDT
Fantastic newspick item.

The press release just about says it all. I particularly like :-

'To accept that the functionality of a computer program can be protected by
copyright would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the
detriment of technological progress and industrial development.'

Is it a coincidence that this press release is dated today (2nd May 2012) ?


hairbear

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Functionality of computer program & programming language can't be protected by copyright
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 02 2012 @ 08:48 AM EDT
This cannot be something that Microsoft wanted to hear. In fact this seems to
blow the doors off all EULAs. We are no longer compelled to be idiot users
under the rule of law. Instead, we are protected by the law.

Now, to use an analogy, like my car, I can take it apart any which way I like to
see how it works and tell others what I found. Now I can do the same with my
computer software. For far to long, illiterate and uniformed judges could not
comprehend this.

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