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by mrich 14y ago
Excellent article, this reflects much of my personal experience working with git in the last year. Our whole department (>100 people) switched as part of a move towards decoupled development/continuous integration, we used perforce befo
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Maybe the new app store, which may drive down their profits from steam a little ;)
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Apple is starting to exceed Oracle in ridiculousness. Let's hope a competent judge takes this case.
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by mrich 14y ago
I wonder what the Apple execs are thinking. 1) "Steve wanted to nuke them, this is what he wanted! LETS KEEP DOING IT FOR STEVE!" 2) "Damn, we don't know whether we should release product A or product B. Neither of them are really polished
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by mrich 14y ago
Well said. Let's not produce more abusive bosses who, when their "brilliant strategy" doesn't work, just think they have to berate their employees harder.
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Fully agree. It always amazes me how Sense gets bashed so much. They have really delivered some handy improvements.
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All other companies typically recognize that nobody ever invented anything on their own and the industry would be dead if products were banned because of infringements. So they settle either for royalties or a cross-licensing deal. Not so w
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I would not be totally shocked if there was some pressure involved, which led him to make the original remarks to give him a plausible exit out of the case.
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I think you are focusing too much on the letter of the law and forgetting the intent. The intent, as clearly stated, is promotion of science and arts. As we established, the current patent system is not able to do that for software. It seem
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The definition from the constitution just underscores my point. Progress is not promoted but blocked. Companies may act according to law, but laws can be unjust. As a customer you have the power to punish companies for their wrongdoing, and
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It was designed to prevent companies from keeping new inventions to themselves as trade secrets. However, with the patent office basically accepting everything as an invention, it has now turned into the opposite. The simple algorithm I cou
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Sure, you could also argue that what banks are doing is useful to society since the government, which is elected by the people, tolerates it. But I will continue to argue that companies have leeway in how they use patents, and exploiting a
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The first iPhone was released in the beginning of 2007. The first litigation against Htc was 3 years later. I consider the original phone an innovation but since then Apple has not done much, and to the bystander it looks like they can only
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For the cite see above. Yes, my main problem is the patent system itself and that it allows basic patents to be used to ban competing products. Notice that a patent itself is not bad, only the holder decides whether to use it destructively
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http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/132050-patents-werent... "Apple, which has been one of the most aggressive players in patent litigation..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation "Apple is known for and promotes itsel
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Because they are trying to use a broken patent system to corner the market, instead of trying to compete. They are the most aggressive in IT doing this, so in a way they are misfits.
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Interestingly, these are the issues that people have been complaining about on Windows for decades and apparently have been the reason for people moving to Macs. But now they are creeping up there, too. Has OS X gotten worse, or was it just
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This has always been the Apple mode of operation. With quite some success, I might add.
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You can hold the copyright on the code but still have no rights for the patents used therein.
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Battery life for the Nexus has been measured at over nine hours for watching video at 100% brightness, 100% volume. Not too shabby and probably hard to beat. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/divine-intervention-g... There is no more
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$100M seems like a lot of money - I wonder what their plans are.
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What makes you think that Apple will win the case next week? The patents they offered are ridiculous and could easily be laughed out of Court by a competent judge (probably not in this case) or invalidated by prior art. Also one more week b
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by mrich 14y ago
Funny, after a couple years of webmail I have just installed Thunderbird again today since I wanted to have more powerful features. I was positively surprised that it had improved quite bit.
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It is also supported in SAP's HANA (in-memory database). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA#R_integration
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Companies that have a history of using patents offensively should however be considered for a boycott (Oracle, Apple)
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I would hope they are not doing this on purpose. However, then it has to be incompetence or lazyness. I heard some european VP was recently let go by Cook, so perhaps he is already taking care of it. Anyway, there are some horror stories re
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There are quite a few companies who will replace a broken product after the initial six months warranty without asking questions. That Apple does not even tell customers about their rights reflects rather badly on them, especially consideri
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Apple is not offering the warranty mandated by the law, so when the device breaks, the customer has to buy a new one. If that is what you get for paying a premium price for the latest Apple product then I have to say no, thanks.
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by mrich 14y ago
Well done, unfortunately all devices using this will be sued out of the market by Apple.
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by mrich 14y ago
What is the job of the patent office, then?

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