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by petegrif 15y ago
Bear in mind that a patent consists of several sections and these sections vary a great deal in how intuitive the use of language is. The section which Linus is almost certainly referring to is the claims. These are indeed expressed in a t
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by petegrif 15y ago
This is a frighteningly naive article. Consider the following extract: "There are at least three reasons to exclude software from patentability. First, software development is an individual, creative activity, more akin to writing a novel
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by petegrif 15y ago
Wouldn't that be nice. Now consider the case of a pharmaceutical company that has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a new drug and get it past FDA. If there is no IP protection would you as the CEO of this company spend
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by petegrif 15y ago
"... and that's the reason you have to have a patent lawyer because the language makes no sense. In US it’s technically English but it’s not really English. It’s like using English words but there are different meanings to them. There is a
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by petegrif 15y ago
Yeah. Me too. I found it painful to read.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Doesn't that ignore the fact that it is possible to have a pseudoidentity? A handle? That is enough to support a reputation and hence to enable you to focus your 'attention on people I know to be helpful?'
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by petegrif 15y ago
a) Maybe. b) Yes.
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by petegrif 15y ago
This is an unusually good piece.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Well done.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Great post. :)
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by petegrif 15y ago
Eric - it's great to see you eating your own dogfood. Initial idea = write book on lean startup. Launch plan = make sure every human being on the planet hears about it. Adapt = hunt down the few poor bastards who haven't head about it yet.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Wow - tigertails were the shit. What happened to 'em?
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by petegrif 15y ago
The fact that we can use a hammer doesn't mean everything is a nail. Languages and programming paradigms profoundly influence the way we think about solving problems. How can it be wrong to explore new paradigms? My concern is not them in
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by petegrif 15y ago
Piracy is not inevitable. There are products - like google search - that can be successfully managed as a trade secret. Search is a server side functionality and it can be closely held so in that case and others like it, it works. Your so
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by petegrif 15y ago
A potentially huge deal would be that with Chrome on Android you get extensions and NaCl.
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by petegrif 15y ago
I am a little puzzled by this project because: a) there was a recent post on techcrunch about how webos runs twice as fast on a hacked ipad, how the hardware isn't that great at all and how this was a pretty widespread belief in the HP team
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by petegrif 15y ago
The problem I have with this is the following. a) There is no software that we cannot put into hardware - literally! Software and hardware are interchangeable. So the oft cited distinction between s/w and h/w is, to say the least, somewha
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by petegrif 15y ago
genius - what a guy!
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by petegrif 15y ago
There have been studies of that. Very few normals change search engines.
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by petegrif 15y ago
I don't think his piece was intended to be a rebuttal to serious informed analysts so much as an attempt to discredit the naive abolitionists who frequently know little or nothing about patent law and who fix on edge cases and abuse as if t
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by petegrif 15y ago
No it wouldn't. Don't even go there. Totally wrong.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Thank god someone is actually thinking about it in an informed way and fighting back against a dogmatic (and frequently extremely poorly informed) abolitionist position.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Paul Graham is the man. So many great posts.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Great piece Danah.
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by petegrif 15y ago
The site looks great - congrats.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Please excuse my curiosity. How do you navigate so many tabs? Is it in some way more efficient than reading them in blocks of say 10 or 20? I am interested in your use case of pages you read every day. I have such pages and I would love t
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by petegrif 15y ago
I figured that around 150 was an unlikely use case but see from the comments that some people are using approx 100 tabs. I can't imagine doing that. What kind of real world use cases do people have for such a huge number of tabs? And how
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by petegrif 15y ago
Ben's posts are consistently insightful. This one is no exception.
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by petegrif 15y ago
I agree. Articles about spats between Silicon Valley insiders are not going to determine how customers view the company.
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by petegrif 15y ago
Agree. Airbnb have a big problem but it isn't Techcrunch. And I don't see why Arrington shouldn't defend himself.

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