throwawaykf

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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> I have a wonderful piece of software on my disk that your are not buying. Are you "depriving" me of that payment? I don't understand - have I appropriated that software by any means? Then why would you be owed some pay
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Your first link goes to an https page for me in Safari on iPad.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I'm not sure I get your point...are you saying there was no intent? Here's what I'm trying to say: If you buy a copy, everyone involved in making it gets paid. If you pirate it, they don't get paid. In other words, they
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> Trolls do it backwards, they go out and find companies that are already producing it and then threaten them with forcing them to stop. That's a very narrow view of the situation. Ask yourself, where do trolls get these patents?
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> the act or crime of stealing; http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/steal steal [steel] stole, sto·len, steal·ing, noun verb (used with object) 1. to take (the property of another or others) without permissio
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
> Where did I say that? Hmm, I read that as a precursor to your later arguments. > "We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. ... This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Ahh, OK, a
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Heh, never expected to see patentlyo on here. Upvoted purely by instinct! For those who've never visited that site, it's a highly regarded blog that covers all kind of patent issues in all kinds of areas. It does get a bit esoteri
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Ugh, just realized... this was supposed to be a reply to pg's top-rated comment but I ended up posting it as a separate thread. As such, the second half appears completely out of context.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Reality? Let's talk biased viewpoints. > Google doesn't make any money from Android. Are you claiming Google puts out Android as an exercise in charity? If not, this is a non-sequitur. > Which company has a founder/C
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
The comparison to war was simply a rhetoric device to imply that all is fair in love and war. > Releasing Android was not an "attack". It was entering a market with a competitive product. The fact that Google was able to lever
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
No. Apple created a new Market at great risk and expense, and Google entered a it with a rip-off product. On the other hand Microsoft sacrificed three years to create an original product to compete fairly. But since Google didn't incur
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Allow me to inject some perspective. 1) For all the talk of Microsoft and Apple "abusing patents", it was actually Google that had to pay 14 million in damages for actually doing just that. Let's just not forget that before
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
He put 500K into EFF. And 2M+ in Vringo. Well, he's putting money and seems it's more where his mouth isn't.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
As far as I recall, most of these studies, especially [2], mostly just present their findings of a correlation, along with the data and any variables that may be relevant, without trying to prove causation. They may posit some tentative the
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
The link to the study in TFA is broken, but here are some more relevant studies: 1. Study of startup patenting in various industries indicating entrepreneurs say patents help getting financing: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/91
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
I wouldn't put much weight behind Mark Cuban's words. He makes statements like the one you quoted and the next thing you know, he invests in a patent troll that's suing Google for hundreds of millions.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Simple, open the new company in China.
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
1. There's no such thing as "software patents", legally speaking. 2. I'd love to know how many people voting on that poll meet the following criteria: a) know what claims are; b) did their own research rather than parrot
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Read the papers to get an idea of how they are beneficial. One obvious way is straight-up helping individual inventors or small companies take on big ones. But another less obvious way they help is by creating a secondary market for patents
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Anyone interested in getting a better understanding of the economic reality of trolls is encouraged to go to ssrn.com and do a quick search for "patent trolls". These are not all peer reviewed papers, but many of them have data an
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Huh, maybe cooldeals and recoiledsnake were the same entity; looks like both stopped commenting at exactly the same time. But the more salient point is, were he/she/they completely wrong in their accusations? Were all the examples
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
While I don't think Engadget is that good anymore, this was still original reporting, and not too far below par for the course for this kind of story. (Compare with the Verge counterpart: http://www.theverge.com/2013&#x
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Pity that cooldeals and recoiledsnake don't even bother showing up these days. They had quite a few examples where articles that were favorable (or heck, even non-negative) to Microsoft consistently got flagged off the front page. Ther
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Because the date on the account tells you how long somebody's been lurking, or if they had previous accounts. I have been lurking here since about 2 years before you created your account (see what I did there?), and while comparisons w
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
To be fair, Microsoft also created a browser that, for its time, is pretty widely accepted (even around here!) as being much better than the Netscape counterpart. So while they did throw their weight around, it's not clear that their b
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
And another way of doing the first one: http://[0::0:ffff:b8ac:a4a]/
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Ugh, no. Yes the patent was upheld. Yes, all the claims survived intact. No, the claims are not on "touch typing, multitouch"; they cover a very specific use of a heuristic to differentiate between scrolling and panning. No, it&#x
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
More encodings: http://[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:b8ac:a4a] http://asdf:qwerty@3098282570/ http://asdf:qwerty@[0:0:0:0:0:ffff:b8ac:a4a]:80 (Might get a security/phishing warning on the last two links in so
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
Percentage of market share is not a clear indication of monopoly. From what I could find, 50% is typically the bare minimum to warrant consideration, and 70 - 75% will get more serious scrutiny. Also, it differs from country to country. In
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by throwawaykf 13y ago
This is one of the few things I agree with RMS on. However, I think I can capture what he's trying to say in a more succinct way: I like to think of a hack as an exploit or usage of something -- could be a computer, could be chopsticks

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