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| Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 01:44 PM EDT |
It’s Not Just
Reader: Google Kills Chrome RSS Add-On
Too
Quote:
Trying to move users from RSS to Google+ and from CalDav
to
Google Calendar may not be part of any vast conspiracy, but
you don’t need
a tinfoil hat to recognize that the days of
Google as a champion of open web
technologies are over.---
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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| Authored by: tinkerghost on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 03:17 PM EDT |
Appeals Court Hands Veoh Another
Win in Important Copyright
Ruling
What a wonderful victory - after being forced into bankruptcy
by 4 lawsuits that were based on Veoh following the DMCA to
the letter and not
just shutting down when UMG wanted them to.
UMG doesn't care about winning the
lawsuits, as long as it can
put competitors out of business.
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You
patented WHAT?!?!?! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: albert on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 07:00 PM EDT |
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Link
It's not cheap, either. IIRC, no browser maker, or OS
vendor, has ever been sued by a user for a product being hacked. Of course, if
that were to become commonplace, Chrome would have a head start.
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| Authored by: macliam on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 07:13 PM EDT |
Chief Judge Rader on the Supreme Court and Judge
Posner
Chief Judge Rader is quoted as saying the
following:
Let me talk about kind of a underlining clash of
cultures, which is disrupting the patent field. The Supreme Court comes from a
different culture than my legal culture. They handle these majestic cases
involving individual vs. collectives rights, liberty vs. order, public vs.
private, and they balances these grand principles wonderfully. They are
creditably talented and bright people who have a real grasp of that vast
responsibility given to them by our Constitution. But that’s not my legal
culture.
I come from the commercial law area where to tell the CEO that
“well I’m going to have to balance several factors and ask three courts
over a period three years whether or not you can have this product enter the
market” is simply an inadequate response.…
Surely
a key point is that, in the past, patent litigation took place between large
businesses, without impacting on small businesses (coffee shops etc.) and
individual people. So the norms of commercial law may have been
appropriate.
But in a situation where small businesses are being sued by
patent trolls, doctors cannot prescribe a safe dosage of a standard medication
without infringing a patent, and a commercial business claims a monopoly on
sequencing DNA for breast cancer testing, patent law impacts on the lives of a
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| Authored by: PolR on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 09:32 PM EDT |
He argues patents should be granted for every new formula and
algorithm, including those that power computer software. Such a change would
jump-start innovation. "If math were patentable, then you could have independent
groups of mathematicians form a group or small company and support themselves
that way," he says.
How about patents on language? If language
were were patentable then you could have independent groups of authors form a
group or small company and support themselves that way.
This is how silly
patents on math are. Formulas and algorithms are utterances in mathematical
language. Nobody will run patent search and pay license fees for the right to
use language. This whole concept is impractical for everyone but patent trolls. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 10:22 AM EDT |
| Patents, the never ending story...
LG accuses Samsung Galaxy S4 of violating its
eye-tracking patent - Link
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- It's Contagious - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 04:24 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 12:58 PM EDT |
| The first sale doctrine was upheld today by a 6-3 vote.
The curious
thing are the three dissenters: Scalia, Ginsburg and Kennedy.Not usually a group
bunched together.
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