Comment Re:Perfect Linux Application for .NET (Score 2) 525
I agree. It's time all the underlings stop fighting their destiny!!
I agree. It's time all the underlings stop fighting their destiny!!
The end user would see it as part of an operating system - which it does become. All I'm seeing here on Slashdot is what must be a bunch of Groupon employees trolling Slashdot trying to defend their company. But they will lose this trademark case.
The GNOME desktop guys need to stop acting like they own the word "gnome".
Said the poster quoting executives inside Groupon!
As far as operating systems are concerned, they do in fact "own" the word "gnome." That is by definition of what a trademark is.
The gnome foundation does have a right to be concerned. With an point of sale system that offers a "gnome" operating environment, end users could easily confuse the two. And it seriously could affect the Gnome Foundation's ability to conduct any business in the future as their mark would be seriously diluted.
What is also disturbing is the hubris behind this. Clearly Groupon thought that they could steamroll over the Gnome Foundation!
I am not a user of gnome, and I know that developers and users have had disagreements with Gnome in the past, but that doesn't mean that users of open source software shouldn't stand behind the Gnome Foundation on this issue. As they have made significant contributions to GPL code and promoting open source software. This really is a no-brainer.
What computing system was used to render the video, and is there a paper available which describes some of the math behind the simulation?
It's official,
Politics thrives over tech. Shills spouting propaganda galore
I miss the old days of
over on another thread. people are whining about koch bros. citing huffington post.
funny how nobody cries over bullying by George Soros. (Koch of the socialists)
where is there good old fashioned tech without the BS hyperbole. (Like
You'll notice that the US spends more than practically any country, and gets among the worst results.
You need to include those on the hardware end as well. Otherwise companies would just end up shafting a different type of tech worker. So not just programmers but tech workers in general.
Title of my upcoming book "Why Johnny can't use a Surface tablet" in bookstores everywhere.
You'll notice that the US spends more than practically any country, and gets among the worst results.
your normal SOC and microprocessors will go apeshit in a rad environment
And why you would lead shield the SOC heavily.
So the better question is how can we improve the system to ensure that counterfeit chips aren't being secretly swapped into our products.
And here we have the question FTDI needed to ask before nuking people's equipment to deal with a crime that already took place.
Any BOM that passes through my hands will get FTDI crossed off. I'm sorry they have a counterfeit problem. They need to improve anti counterfeiting measures instead of inflicting collateral damage. Their abrupt decision is smelly no matter how you look at it.
This is exactly what I was looking at. Are the USB chips covered by FTDI patents? What process are they assigned a PID?
In other words, why not just give it your own Chinese trademark and move on?
You get what you pay for. Unless good counterfeits are a high percentage of the market you will know the price. You KNOW the real price. Those discounts are "too good to be true".
Except that the end consumer has zero knowledge about these counterfeit chips inside whatever they bought. And my guess is a most slashdotters do not either, until it stops working because of FTDI.
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