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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 05:20 PM EST |
It's always a good sign when the sacred oxen start lowing -- it proves they've
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| Authored by: cybervegan on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 05:58 PM EST |
Welldone, PolR - you obviously hit a raw nerver with this one!
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Software source code is a bit like underwear - you only want to show it off in
public if it's clean and tidy. Refusal could be due to embarrassment or shame...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: lwoggardner on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 06:00 PM EST |
In the real world there's simply
no opportunity to employ anyone who
takes ten words to say
what could be said in
three.
Funnily
enough, that's exactly how I describe my brother's
job... as a patent attorney![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 06:01 PM EST |
Oh my, someone struck a nerve!
That must hurt. The truth usually does.
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I voted for Groklaw (Legal Technology Category) in the 2012 ABA Journal Blawg
100. Did you? http://www.abajournal.com/blawg100. Voting ends Dec 21.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- I'd have to agree - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:00 PM EST
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 06:43 PM EST |
"In the real world there's simply no opportunity to employ
anyone who takes ten words to say what could be said in
three."
In what "real" world do you live in?
In the really real world try reading a law, or a contract,
or a business case, or attend one of the 85% of business
meetings where you spend an hour listening to someone who
could have said everything in 5 minutes.
Your imaginary world sound really cool though. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 01:44 AM EST |
First, thank you PoIR, for the article. It was powerful, to say the least.
I will have to admit that I've had to attack it several times before I could get
through it (the learning curve for me was pretty steep).
I think the OPs difficulty was probably the same as mine. He wants to
understand it, but is having difficulty with the learning curve. To that, I can
only encourage people, that if one has problems understanding the content, it
might be advantageous to take a break, get the dictionary, leave the room for a
moment, get some coffee, think about something else for a bit, and then come
back and get to it again. For me, this was the only way that I could do it, but
in the end, I've walked away having learned something.
While I do think it would be advantageous to have it more "dumbed
down" for the likes of the common folk (like me) who would struggle with
it, I also realize that the arguments for patentable software is obfuscated to
the point that it needs to be answered with this type of technical clarity.
As was said long ago, "Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion
the slave of sophistry and declamation." The reason that I come here to
Groklaw, is to get the education I need so that, in my ignorance, I am not duped
by the cunning, thus my passions escape the slavery of sophistry and declamation
of the greedy.
This article is but another testament to the greatness of Groklaw and to it's
contributors.
Thank you.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 09:09 AM EST |
If that is the real case then you must surely know, and
understand, that allowing patents on software is in clear
violation of the patent laws passed by Congress. Perhaps
you can have some influence and help get software patents
disallowed. Seriously.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 04:11 PM EST |
Bondfire
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