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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, December 09 2012 @ 04:32 PM EST |
Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it
“on a computer” or
“over the Internet” doesn’t mean you
deserve a patent, according to an amicus
brief filed on Friday
by Google, Facebook and six other tech companies
Facebook,
Google, Zynga Ask Courts To Reject Patents
On Abstract Ideas That Plague Tech
Innovation
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Authored by: mcinsand on Sunday, December 09 2012 @ 05:22 PM EST |
So far, the only forces that I have found driving users from
Linux back to a walled garden have been specific games and
Unity. When I converted one computer from XP to Fedora, the
users were amazed at the speed increase, but disappointed
when WINE would not run The Sims. In the past year, I have
seen Unity be a dealbreaker with 5 people. Three of those
went from willing to try Linux to unwilling to consider it
again. Two of those stayed with Linux after putting KDE on
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11 2012 @ 11:32 AM EST |
For most people, when the 'freedom of Linux' means they can't use the software
they *want* to use, it's not 'freedom'. There's no need to get all snarky about
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