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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 02:40 AM EDT |
Seems
that Oracle's beginning to make MySQL less
open source... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 02:59 AM EDT |
PJ,
I'll stand you to a beer (or three) anytime you're in my town(s). Atlanta or New
Orleans.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 09:52 AM EDT |
Scary thought - Apple's market cap is now approximately
equal to the entire
GDP of Switzerland. Since Switzerland is
ranked 19th in the List
of countries by GDP, Apple's value
exceeds the GDP of the remaining ~250
countries around the
world.
The previous record-holder in
terms of
aggregate market-cap was Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) which hit
its
all-time high on December 30, 1999 at the height of the
technology bubble.
Apple’s achievement does not take into
account inflation, however, and
Microsoft was considerably
more valuable on an inflation-adjusted basis in
December
1999. In inflation-adjusted dollars, Microsoft’s market-cap
reached a
high of around $850 billion. The company now has a
market-cap of about
$257 billion.
The moral of the story: What goes up must
come down,
especially in the world of hi tech.
The likely
catalyst for the stock to
eventually peak and decline will be Apple’s inability
to
continue to innovate at its current pace. Certainly, this is
likely to
happen at some point as the company confronts the
burdens of stunning success
in a relatively short period of
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 10:01 AM EDT |
Judge Alsup, should be on everyone's (both sids) short list for a Supreme Court
nomination, should one come up...!
The way this judge works, is indeed for the result that is the most fair, and he
has ability to see the forest thru the trees... for digital matters, the Supreme
Court really needs this level of a legal mind, in order to debate future digital
cases (and be able to communicate logic to the rest of the court).
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Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 11:44 AM EDT |
Link
Lately I've been thinking about a
"modest proposal" to fight
this battle. My idea in a nutshell is to get
Congress to
pass a law specifying that no form of speech can infringe a
patent, further articulating that software is speech within
the meaning of the
First Amendment and other contexts.
The advantage would be to leave the
burnt-out husk of
software patents intact but useless, a substantial reminder
to later generations of the greed once exposed as
"intellectual property
specialists".
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