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Oracle secrecy threatens open MySQL development
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 02:40 AM EDT
Seems that Oracle's beginning to make MySQL less open source...

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CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials
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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Apple Now Most Valuable Company in History
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 time.

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Alsup to Ninth Circuit: Don't Listen to 'Incorrect' Argument
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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Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?
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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Hate the math. Don't hate the mathematician!

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