Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT |
It says that the only way to move music around involves making
duplicates, and there is is no way to guarantee all the original owner's copies
of
the files have been deleted. BBC
Sure,
some kids will have toys that break ReDigi's system, but those kids already
have DRM breakers anyhow. Seems like the XXAA are prime candidates for re-education.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 05 2012 @ 08:56 PM EDT |
That is all I can tell from this awful article.
For shame Reuters...
http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE8940HG2012
1005
"Motorola Mobility, part of Google, did not infringe a
Microsoft patent which enables applications to work on
different handsets."
Oh great. Glad that's a specific patent then. Either someone
at Reuters or the patent office needs to be fired. And
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
LXer.com is pointing to a TechDirt article
titled Early
Inventor Of Streaming Video Wants To Help Fight Off Video Streaming Patent
Trolls. Bookmarking this information would probably be useful to anyone
involved in streaming video and associated payment systems for purchasing video
content.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 06 2012 @ 03:57 PM EDT |
http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/10/06/1621228/ad-group-says-
internet-accounts-for-51m-us-jobs-37-of-gdp
"A Harvard Business School study sponsored by the
Interactive Advertising Bureau shows that the ad-supported
Internet is responsible for 5.1 million jobs in the U.S. —
two million direct and 3.1 million indirect. They report
that the Internet accounted for 3.7% of 2011 GDP. The
research, development and procurement that launched the
Internet back in the 1970s and 1980s cost the US taxpayers
$124.5 million at the time — not a bad investment!"
Can you imagine the return on the money spent on the free
and open source software!
That would be a relevant study for the Congress.
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- Well - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 12:59 AM EDT |
zdnet Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe
contributed a joint submission ...
Three Little Pigs? No, they
were small and mostly good.
Three Musketeers? For all the trouble they got
into they were on the winning side. Maybe these or
these or p'raps these
?
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- Escape artists - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 01:24 AM EDT
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Authored by: JamesK on Sunday, October 07 2012 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
"The regional court in Mannheim, Germany, ruled that Moto didn't infringe a
Microsoft patent which lets apps work across different handsets, Reuters
reports. The patent means developers don't have to write separate codes for each
handset, saving time and development costs."
How is something like that even patentable? Linux (and Unix before it) is
easily moved to new computers because it was written in C and easily ported to
the new hardware. How is this any different? Also, aren't Java apps by nature
platform independent? Even long before C and Java, FORTRAN and COBOL software
was more or less easily moved between computers.
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