Software patents are patently offensive
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Contributed by Dennis on Thursday November 21, @06:03AM
from the kill-all-the-lawyers dept.
Jarret Ruth writes "I was browsing IBM's patent server when I came across this disturbing patent on 'interpreted scripting languages'. Not good!" Arturo Robles pointed out an article in InfoWorld about a patent on horizontal scroll bars held by AOL. Dozens of people sent linkage to a Salon.com editorial entitled "Why Software Patents Benefits Consumers" written by Representative Foote. Finally, Andreas Thompson sent us an rebuttal editorial about the evils of software patents. Click below to read it."
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Is Enterprise.com In Trouble?
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Contributed by Dennis on Thursday November 21, @05:08AM
from the i-can't-believe-it dept.
Analysts are worried about Enterprise.com, which is not only in financial trouble but has been acting very erratically lately. Instead of laying off employees that they don't need, they've increased their workforce by 46% even though in a few months they'll start bouncing payroll checks. According to some, the company is doomed because it built a website with gratuitious Flash, JavaScript, and ActiveX features that irritated everyone. So what gives?
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Linus Releases Kernel 2.4.5 To The World
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Contributed by Ryan on Thursday November 21, @03:58AM
from the download-compile-reboot dept.
Ksnijum was the first of many to tell us that the latest, greatest version of the Linux kernel is now available at a download site near you. You know what to do.
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Software patents are patently offensive
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Contributed by Ryan on Thursday November 21, @02:57AM
from the kill-all-the-lawyers dept.
Darrel Hann writes "I was browsing IBM's patent server when I came across this disturbing patent on 'pull-down menus'. Not good!" Victoria Thompson pointed out an article in Wired News about a patent on pull-down menus held by AOL. Dozens of people sent linkage to a PC Week editorial entitled "Why Software Patents Benefits Consumers" written by Representative Lauzon. Finally, webufu sent us an rebuttal editorial about the evils of software patents. Click below to read it."
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Mission-critical.com Post Mortem
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Contributed by Dennis on Thursday November 21, @02:44AM
from the can-you-say-beowulf-cluster? dept.
MSNBC takes a look at why Mission-critical.com failed and what they probably could have done to survive. They suggest that they wasted all of their money on the lamest Super Bowl commercial ever produced. Another explanation is that the company intended to get rich from selling out to Microsoft even though they didn't have a product. I realized as I read this that I never once bought anything from Mission-critical.com. Oh well.
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Did Somebody Say 340 Gigabytes?
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Contributed by Ryan on Thursday November 21, @01:27AM
from the drool-drool-drool dept.
Dell has done it again. According to this InfoWorld article, they've patented new technology that will allow them to produce a 340 gigabyte hard drive the size of a molecule. Production isn't expected to begin until 2008, which means you'll need to find some other way to store your MP3 library for now.
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Linux Kernel 2.4.1 Released
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Contributed by Dennis on Wednesday November 20, @11:04PM
from the download-compile-reboot dept.
Jermaine Bucsis informed us that the latest, greatest version of the Linux kernel is now available at a download site near you. You know what to do.
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Linux Possibly Defamed Somewhere!
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Contributed by Mike on Wednesday November 20, @09:27PM
from the call-out-the-linux-brigade! dept.
Several hundred people have sent word of a Linux roast-a-thon over at PC Week. We recommend you send hostile flames to the author to let your voice be heard -- we simply cannot and will not allow idiots to badmouth our favorite operating system.
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Did Somebody Say 697 Gigabytes?
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Contributed by Mike on Wednesday November 20, @06:43PM
from the i-want-one dept.
Seagate has done it again. According to this MSNBC article, they've patented new technology that will allow them to produce a 697 gigabyte hard drive the size of a molecule. Of course, it's still vaporware, but man that would hold a lot of MP3's!
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Should Sun Microsystems Acquire Hewlett-Packard?
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Contributed by Ryan on Wednesday November 20, @05:27PM
from the a-match-made-in-hell dept.
This feature over at PC Week argues that Sun Microsystems should merge with Hewlett-Packard. Why? Because "Sun Microsystems has high hopes for world domination, which it won't be able to fulfill without the help of Hewlett-Packard."
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