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Speaking at the 40th J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and
Telecom conference, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo said that as these 3G
unlimited data plan customers migrate to 4G LTE, they will have to purchase the
company's data-share plan...
JP again.
No, there is no
connection. None at all.
What if you stay on 3G ?
In an
unrelated note, Shammo also said that the company will launch Voice over LTE
technology at year end, but will not push the technology until mid-2013 when it
has a bigger LTE footprint.
Wow, LTE will support voice
calls?
Who woulda thunk it?
These bozos have completely forgotten why
they are in business.
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| Authored by: sproggit on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 07:15 PM EDT |
This is almost on topic, but not quite...
We tell ourselves that history often repeats itself, and that those who fail to
learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat history's mistakes.
Except that in some cases, those lessons repeat in evolved forms. Like the
current situation with software patents.
Europe has been embroiled in war since before records began. Both World
Wars started in Europe. Conflict between different factions has been a
permanent feature of the region. That is... Up until recently. What changed
to bring about peace in Europe, and how could this possibly be relevant to
software patents in today's marketplace?
This question has a two part answer.
The first part of the answer, for Europe (and I offer my profound apologies
to students of European history for this gross over-simplification) is that
NATO happened. It was imperfect and it was often more hassle than it
seemed it was worth, but it worked. NATO worked because it became
greater than the sum of it's parts: a mutual defence treaty that said, "We
are open to those who share our ideals, and pledge to support all those
who join us. An attack on a member state of NATO is an attack on all of
NATO, and will be treated as such. We can't say if this was the right
solution, the best solution, or even the only viable solution.
NATO is such a contentious topic, however, that I don't want us to get side-
tracked into an analysis of it's flaws. The point I wanted to illustrate is that
a
strategy based on non-aggressive, mutual defence has a real chance of
success.
The second part of the answer is free trade. Examples of this include the
original EEC (European Economic Community) , NAFTA (the North
American Free Trade Agreement) and so on. Once peace stabilised and a
degree of political stability returned to Europe, countries, businesses and
citizens realised that it was actually much more beneficial and profitable to
have a society in which interoperability, free trade and free competition
were promoted. Red tape and restrictive trade practices were outlawed.
Europe prospered....
I believe the comparisons are clear.
Firstly, it seemed inevitable to me that certain commercial software
companies will continue to use patent aggression to either illegally maintain
market dominance, and/or exclude FOSSIL competition through threats of
patent infringement. Individual companies may have large patent arsenals,
but if the FOSS community could find a way to broker a cooperation pact
between enough of the FOSS friendly companies, then we would have a
realistic chance of creating a defensive shield against patent aggression
towards FOSS. It is entirely that altruistic goal of FOSS that could be the
enabler of such a pact, where other approaches may not succeed.
Most importantly, I think that companies who have traditionally used or
threatened the use of patents in an aggressive, offensive way, might be
encouraged to think again if the target of their ire happened to be a
member of a "software patent NATO" such that the aggressor would know
that the moment they filed suit, all other members of that group would be
taking a long hard look at the aggressor's business, such that a counter-suit
might have real bite to it.
But it's critically important to realise that this isn't just sabre-rattling and
aggressive posturing. A peaceful Europe has become an economic
powerhouse. Whilst it is of course true that there tends to be greater levels
of partnershipp and cooperation in the FOSS world than the closed source
world, I think that even more emphasis on partnership would encourage
better integration, code re-use and even better quality. This, in turn, would
drive better interoperability.
So here's a thought for PJ - and it has to be PJ, because frankly I don't
know of too many people who could pull this off... But how about using a
vehicle like Groklaw to pull together a broad mix of commercial and non-
commercial users off FOSS to make a "Software NATO"???
Consider this from the perspective of the instant case... I don't know how
much revenue Oracle receives from all the companies involved in the sale
of Android phones, but I am sure it's there. And what about the companies
writing apps and offering support. Certainly not enough to push Oracle
under, but if it was enough to hit Oracle sales, perhaps it would be enough
to cause a rethink on stategy.
Would it work?
Would the main players come on board?
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- NATO & Patents - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 07:46 PM EDT
- OIN - Authored by: sproggit on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 01:19 AM EDT
- OIN - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 02:16 AM EDT
- OIN - Authored by: sproggit on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 02:50 AM EDT
- NATO & Patents - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 02:20 AM EDT
- NATO & Patents - Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 05:46 PM EDT
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| Law article on the constitutionality of the filibuster in the US senate [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 11:43 AM EDT |
| What Unnatural substance that is usually Pet Food will I be served NOW!
Not long after the “pink slime” outcry and the reemergence of mad cow disease,
concerns about meat glue have the industry back on defense.
Click here UCH!!
“The tenderness of the Vegas strip steak is
comparable to the New York strip steak,” says Tony Mata of the industry group
Mata & Associates. “It does not require aging or marinating to achieve
tenderness and its visual appeal enhances the steak eater’s overall
enjoyment.”
Did the Fuka shima radiation mutate a herd of cows so as to have
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| Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:28 PM EDT |
| The staff
of a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on antitrust issues is looking into the Mozilla
Foundation’s allegations that Microsoft has made it difficult for competing
browsers to run on Windows-powered mobile phones. ---
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 12:39 PM EDT |
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block
provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the
military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly
supporting terrorism.
Signed by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve, the 565-page NDAA
contains a short paragraph, in statute 1021, letting the military detain anyone
it suspects "substantially supported" al-Qaida, the Taliban or
"associated forces." The indefinite detention would supposedly last
until "the end of hostilities."
In a 68-page ruling blocking this statute, U.S. District Judge Katherine
Forrest agreed that the statute failed to "pass constitutional muster"
because its broad language could be used to quash political dissent.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
Zack Whittaker of ZDNet reports "Analysts are
warning PC
makers that Microsoft’s upcoming operating system may not
prove as
successful as they may have hoped."
I'm already disappointed with
Windows 8, for a number of
reasons. I think my Windows 7 will do for a good
many years
yet, and by then, who knows what cool non-Microsoft options
will be
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| Authored by: LocoYokel on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 04:35 PM EDT |
| http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/16/3024042/us-doj-police-baltimore-video-recordin
g-civil-right
clicky
The US Department of Justice sent a
strongly worded letter to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) on Monday,
reprimanding it for insufficiently supporting the right of citizens to record
video of officers on duty — a move that suggests the federal government is
becoming increasingly concerned over related civil rights abuses. The DOJ is not
satisfied with the BPD's response to a settlement for a case involving the
unlawful harassment and detention of a man named Christopher Sharp — just one of
many similar incidents across the US involving police officers encroaching on
the right of citizens to record their public
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First
Amendment under the assumption that there exists a right to
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| Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 04:38 PM EDT |
| Non Sequitur
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