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Perry Mason Moment at the Prenda Law hearing - Oh oh :-) | 171 comments | Create New Account
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Here's Why American Airlines Chose Samsung Over Apple When It Bought 17,000 Tablets
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 08:39 AM EDT
Here's Why American Airlines Chose Samsung Over Apple When It Bought 17,000 Tablets
One reason Samsung won is because it has been pushing hard to lure enterprise customers with programs like "Samsung For Enterprise (SAFE)." SAFE adds security and management features to all Samsung Galaxy devices

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Perry Mason Moment at the Prenda Law hearing - Oh oh :-)
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 09:02 AM EDT
Perry Mason Moment at the Prenda Law hearing

electrifying stuff:

Brett Gibbs Gets His Day In Court — But Prenda Law Is The Star

We're All Perry Mason In Here

In real life, people in the audience in court proceedings do not spring up to make dramatic revelations, because that gets you arrested. Today, it happened. Just after Gibbs testified that he had only limited responsibility for AF Holdings, an attorney in the audience stood and asked to be heard. I cringed, waiting for the kill. But Judge Wright asked him who he was and what he wanted. He identified himself as an attorney for Paul Godfread, who in turn is Alan Cooper's attorney. Gibbs, he said, spoke with him in November 2012 and represented himself as "national counsel" for AF Holdings, one of the Prenda Law clients. Wright shook his head. "Have you noticed," he said in rhetorical tones, "that every representation made by a lawyer with Prenda Law is not true." The lawyer sat back down again. Some might say that didn't bode well for Prenda.

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Ars: “Good luck to *you*,” Wright responded. - Angry judge blasts porn trolls
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 09:16 AM EDT
“The client has been running everything here,” Wright said pointedly. “And I know who the client is,” he added, implying it was John Steele. Wright then dismissed Gibbs from the stand.

“Thank you, Your Honor,” Gibbs said as he stepped down.

“Good luck to you,” Wright responded.

Angry judge blasts porn trolls: “Someone has an awful lot to hide”

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Microsoft "Bait and Switch" Could Mean a Huge Increase in Foreign Tech Workers
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:11 AM EDT
A member of a powerful DC-based coalition of education and labor groups says Microsoft tricked him and others into opening the door to the Immigration Innovation Act, a federal bill that would promote the offshore outsourcing of American jobs. "It was a classic bait and switch," says the source,... described Microsoft's approach to the bill as "lobbying malpractice." Clicky here .

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Raising the Stakes in Patent Cases
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 13 2013 @ 09:42 AM EDT

In my humble opinion: what a terrible idea!

From the article:

Defendants sometimes succeed in convincing a court to invalidate a truly valid patent.
I'd like to see a single example of this occurring.
Other times, a court upholds an invalid patent against a challenge.
More often then not this appears to be the norm. With a patent challenged multiple times before it's successfully invalidated.
Counter-intuitively, we propose raising the stakes of patent litigation by providing enhanced rewards to victorious patent holders...
If the norm is as I've outlined where:
    No valid patent has been invalidated - Who gets to decide what's a valid patent that was invalidated? According to the fact that software is nothing but abstract and abstract concepts are not patentable, no software patent should exist.
and
    Invalid patents are successfully litigated multiple times before becoming invalidated
If that's true... then the solution as suggested will increase the reward to patent trolls thereby spurring them on.

Terrible idea!!!

RAS

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