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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
Let's be honest now: how often do you see a patent and think to yourself, "Gosh, this patent is really complicated and the text is just not explanatory enough, I really wish I had some code or flowcharts to make it clearer!"
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
Again: read the claims. From a quick glance, it seems a single flexible screen is used within a case, and the same screen presents the main display as well as the side display through a window in the side of the case (presumably the flexi
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
1) Firstly, [citation needed]. The voice of a hivemind on particular forums is not any kind of data point given that the vast majority of developers don't post anywhere. Further, note that most people on these forums live in a very spe
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
1) No, all developers don't think APIs should not be copyrightable, unless you adopt a "no true Scotsman" definition of "developer". Many commenters on various forums think they should be as copyrightable as any oth
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
> "Difficult to do well" and "creativity" does not equal "copyrightable". But how you express it is covered by copyright. A mathematical proof is not, but if you write it out so that it rhymes, that spe
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
If you're going to call an examiner out, why don't we see if you can do a better job? Here are the rules if you want to prove the patent invalid (the examiner does not make them): 1. Read the claims. Of the thousands of comment
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
>... because I think it doesn't serve the economic purpose of copyright (preventing free-riding). Au contraire, I think it clearly solves the economic problem of free-riding in this particular case . Consider: 1) Sun (and now by
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
> 1) It is merely a guidepost to the rest of the work and doesn't rise to the level of creativity of the meat of the text. As anyone who has designed enough APIs will tell you (including engineers testifying on Google's behal
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by throwawaykf05 12y ago
I will bring up my prediction again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282162 "My take is [APIs] would be found copyrightable, but Google may probably prevail on fair use." [1] Unlike most here, I think this i
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
Thing is, as the courts and the USPTO found time and again, pretty much all subsequent solutions to that problem were non-significant variations of the Wrights' patent. Even Curtiss' own aileron patent was invalidated because the
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
No, the Wright brothers' patents did not hold up the US aviation industry: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673 Although the introduction reads something like a conspiracy theory, this paper
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
> Except for the CORS issue have you seen an exploit related to WebGL? And as far as I can tell, that was the issue MS needed fixed before going ahead with WebGL, but then again I haven't been following their actions in this area
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
Hmm, taking a cynical view, this could be a win-win for Nokia. Consider this: 1) The device does well: Nokia makes some money. 2) The device flops: Nokia can lay to rest the common criticism that they should have gone with Android. They can
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
(Edited to add: I am not aware of any statements on WebGL from MS beyond that blog post, but I don't follow those circles, so I'll accept your word that they continued bashing it after CORS was introduced. However, people I'd
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282162 Cmd-F WebGL
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
Allow me to rebut your arguments point-by-point:
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
In what possible reality was this not the inevitable outcome? The "enough eyeballs" aphorism makes for a nice soundbite but in practice was always a red herring.
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by throwawaykf05 13y ago
expected, a post about irrational hatred generates even more irrational hatred. But that's what you get when open source is your religion of choice. Since HN does not let me comment too frequently, I'll just address these points i