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Authored by: ukjaybrat on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 12:14 PM EDT |
"On topic posters will be forced to buy a Nokia phone and use
it."
Can I "use" said Nokia phone as a prop under the fourth leg of
my tilted table?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:01 PM EDT |
Ziff-Davis writer estimates Microsoft may make up to $3.4B off
Android sales this year, through patent royalties at
approximately $8 per Android device.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-most-profitable-mobile-
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
Article at Arstechnica.
New
legislation sponsored by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Anna Eshoo
(D-CA), and Jared Polis (D-CO) takes a broader approach to the issue. In
addition to explicitly legalizing cell phone unlocking, the Unlocking Technology
Act of 2013 also modifies the DMCA to make clear that unlocking copy-protected
content is only illegal if it's done in order to "facilitate the infringement of
a copyright." If a circumvention technology is "primarily designed or produced
for the purpose of facilitating noninfringing uses," that would not be a
violation of copyright.
For example, Lofgren's bill would likely make it
legal for consumers to rip DVDs for personal use in much the same way they've
long ripped CDs. It would remove legal impediments to making versions of
copyrighted works that are accessible to blind users. And it would ensure that
car owners have the freedom to service their vehicles without running afoul of
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- Hmmm. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:36 PM EDT
- Hmmm. - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 08:35 PM EDT
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 03:54 PM EDT |
Link
"It's a
game-changing event, truly. It's terrifying," sighed Ditto CEO Kate Endress.
"We've had to stop all marketing, every dollar has to go into this litigation."
1-800 Contacts refuses to license the patent to Ditto; instead it's seeking an
injunction to stop Ditto from using the software. The only option, as Ditto sees
it, is to lawyer-up and try and win the suit.
...
"If we win this
infringement case, we're still out the millions of dollars we spent winning.
That's why it has become punitive for companies to innovate," Endress said. "The
patent systems is structured in a way where it lets corporations act like patent
trolls where they can buy things they didn't invent.
...
Despite the odds,
Endress vows that, "We're going to vigorously defend ourselves. We're so proud
of what we built. Maybe we can become cash flow positive and survive." The EFF
is asking for help in trying to
invalidate the patent
in question, but no matter how the legal complications unfold, the road Ditto
faces will certainly be long and expensive.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 04:37 PM EDT |
Link
Popcorn recommended.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:40 PM EDT |
Link
...
In 1994, the
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided in In re Alappat that an
invention that had a novel software algorithm combined with a trivial physical
step was eligible for patent protection. This ruling opened the way for a large
scale increase in patenting of software. Alappat and his fellow inventors were
granted patent 5,440,676, the patent at issue in the appeal, in 1995. That
patent expired in 2008. In other words, we have now experienced a full
generation of software patents.
The Alappat decision was controversial, not
least because the software industry had been highly innovative without patent
protection. In fact, there had long been industry opposition to patenting
software. Since the 1960s, computer companies opposed patents on software,
first, in their input to a report by a presidential commission in 1966 and then
in amici briefs to the Supreme Court in Gottschalk v. Benson in 1972 (they later
changed their views). Major software firms opposed software patents through the
mid-1990s. Perhaps more surprising, software developers themselves have mostly
been opposed to patents on software.
Those original fears about the harm
that software patents would cause to the industry have turned out to be well
founded. The book "
Patent Failure " by Bessen and Meurer has calculated the aggregate annual
patent profits and costs for the years 1996 to 1999, shortly after software
patents became more common. The annual patent profits for US companies from
software patents was $100 million; the annual litigation costs for software
patents were $3,880 million. That means on average, the net effect of
software patents was a loss of over $3.5 billion per year.
...
Patent
trolls reduce the incentives to innovate in one field above all:
the
characteristics of this litigation are distinctive: it is focused on software
and related technologies, it targets firms that have already developed
technology, and most of these lawsuits involve multiple large companies as
defendants.
Just as with the Wright Brothers, then, patents are not
helping innovation, but hindering it severely, particularly in the field of
software, where hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth has been destroyed by
patents. The overall effect on research and development is
devastating:
In the smartphone industry alone, according to a Stanford
University analysis, as much as $20 billion was spent on patent litigation
and patent purchases in the last two years — an amount equal to eight Mars rover
missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and Google on patent
lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research
and development of new products, according to public filings.
The
evidence is overwhelming: software patents were never needed to create the
software industry we know today, and they are no longer needed now that
unpatented open source is replacing proprietary software at every level.
Software patents do not promote innovation, they stifle it. They do not reward
inventors, but patent trolls. As an idea and in practice, the software patent -
rather like the Wright brothers' lethally-dangerous Model C aeroplane - simply
does not fly.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 05:41 PM EDT |
See:-
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/copyright-troll-righthaven-finally-co
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 06:54 PM EDT |
I've finished getting Shebat Legion's computer up and running, and she has
it
back. This is what I've installed. Note that the software is in alphabetical
order,
and I'm including everything, browsers
etc.
7Zip
Abiword
Celestia
Celtx
Chrome
Ever
note
Firefox
Freemind
InfraRecorder
LibreOffice 4.02 + Help
Pack + After the Deadline 0.4 plugin
Lyx2.0 (supposed to have a writer
plug-in)
Stellarium
Storybook 4
The
Gimp
Videolan
YWriter
Zim Desktop Wiki
Some of
this stuff may not make sense to you, but the two of us were talking
about a
Science Fiction collaboration, so Celestia and Stellarium could be useful.
Besides, I know she likes stars.
The Gimp is useful if you want to do
cover layouts designs, to give the artist an
idea of what you
want.
Evernote is great for research.
Infrarecorder is
useful for backups. Not as good as a decent USB drive, but still
helpful. I've
also talked her into getting an online storage account.
Freemind is
useful for brainstorming.
Zim is a decent note keeping
util/wiki.
7Zip handles most archive formats.
YWriter and
StoryBook are both "writers" tools which include an editor, along with
a
character, plot, and setting database.
Videolan is useful as a general
media player.
I assume everyone knows what LibreOffice is. The plug in
is an improved
Grammar checker.
Abiword got included in case she
wanted something lighter than LibreOffice.
If you have any friends
still using Windows who write, this is probably as good as
it gets. Most of
this stuff is also available for Linux, and some of it is available
for Mac OSX
and BSD as well.
Wayne
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 07:28 PM EDT |
VirnetX
Files New Lawsuit Against Microsoft Corporation Citing Willful Infringement
April 22, 2013, it filed a complaint against Microsoft
Corporation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Texas, Tyler Division. The complaint includes allegations of willful patent
infringement regarding six patents owned by VirnetX, U.S. Patent Nos. 6,502,135,
7,188,180, 7,418,504, 7,490,151, 7,921,211, and 7,987,274. Specifically,
the complaint references Microsoft's Skype products as infringing the VirnetX
patents. Skype was purchased after the limited license was signed between
Microsoft and VirnetX. This infringement falls outside of the scope of the
prior license. In its complaint, VirnetX seeks both damages and injunctive
relief.
Microsoft hit by patent lawsuit over Skype
May 1, 2013.
CopyTele, a company that calls itself
"specialists in patent monetization and patent assertion," launched its suit
today, alleging that some of the technology used in Skype violates patents owned
by its subsidiary, Secure Web Conference Corp.
In its complaint, CopyTele is
asserting the infringement of two U.S patents -- "Method and apparatus for
securing e-mail attachments" [6,856,686] and "Portable telecommunication
security device," [6,856,687] both granted in
2005.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 09:31 PM EDT |
Silverlight - Public Transportation -
Trains and
Buses
In California we have various PUBLIC transportation systems.
The one I'm complaining about is "The City of Santa Clarita, (Los Angeles, CA)
Transit".
In order to use their interactive map I have to install
Silverlight. This would imply that I would have to install a Microsoft OS as
well as have a computer powerful enough to run it. (Or buy an Apple
computer).
I thought after Hurricane Katrina these vendor centric sites
run by government type agencies became a thing of the past.
As an
activist I want to know what I can do to make some changes in order that people
can use this site without Microsoft proprietary software and licenses? The EFF
maybe. Something else? Anything?
I've included some hyperlinks below
for anyone interested.
Bus
Finder Map, without a map of Santa Clarita buses, one might find himself
standing next to the Station Tracks
figuring out what to do next.
It is so easy to join (joking) SILVERLIGHT Quick Download -
Thirty Second Install
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 09 2013 @ 09:46 PM EDT |
Well !! Knock me over with a Windows shills phony storys. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 12:09 AM EDT |
First, Microsoft tried to strong-arm B&N into putting
Windows on the Nook. They went with Android.
Then they tried the baseless patent threat game and were
out-maneuvered. Microsoft ended up giving them $300 million
in working capital to make the lawsuit Microsoft started go
away.
Now that B&N had a brilliant Amicus Curiae it looks like
they're desperate to just buy them out so they can shut them
down with a $1,000,000,000+ payoff.
It must really be killing Microsoft that B&N has made a
product consumers love, and is telling the truth in court.
I can just hear Ballmer now... "nasty nookitses, my
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