Comment Re:"Patent expert"? (Score 2) 181
What he did in the past doesn't change the fact that he seems to have turned into a troll, repeating the same untruths over and over again like a broken record.
What he did in the past doesn't change the fact that he seems to have turned into a troll, repeating the same untruths over and over again like a broken record.
He's not much of a "patent expert" if he can't tell that this case is not about patents. Maybe "clueless troll Florian Mueller" would be more accurate?
... "another expert, who actually knew how computers worked, was unavailable for comment - he was laughing too hard to speak coherently".
You could go further and not actually bother to release the film. There's no need to go to all the trouble and expense of actually getting it in cinemas or on DVD. Just allow a copy to leak onto a torrent and sue everyone who has ever seen it.
We could use the generated electricity to power desalinisation plants.
Mine has been around for 800 years now. Hopefully it'll last at least 25 more until I retire.
I know you are trying to be funny, but it's worth pointing out a couple of things. None of those other things are as immersive as video games. These are kids, remember? They really do learn from experience. The effect will be far greater coming from an activity that totally absorbs your attention by allowing you to take part in it. Actual violence is provably more effective - kids that grow up in violent households usually become violent themselves. Lastly, I don't recall the last time someone said that actual violence was OK while video games are not. Humour works best when it keeps some sort of tie with reality.
What a strange article. Lots of words, but no clear meaning comes through to me. He seems to be taking one sentence from a Canonical license and saying that it proves there's lots of problems for open source because copyrights fwibble a gwabbit. Well, if he's making up stuff I might as well start making up stuff too. Copyrights are what keep open source open - i.e. you can't ignore the license and stop other people using the open source code you distribute without breaking copyright law yourself.
I really don't see the problem. Contributed code where copyright is assigned to the company can be distributed under a license specified by the company it was contributed to. How is this different from any other company that takes in code? Code that is already under the GPL stays under the GPL - you can't hijack it for your own license, thanks to the copyright laws. If Canonical start being bastards and distributing copyright-assigned contributed code under a non-free license then people will stop contributing. The stuff they have already distributed under a free license remains free forever and they can't revoke it.
Exactly! Who needs to write cross-platform stuff? It's much better to re-write the code for each OS and device. That way the developers get paid 6 or 7 times for the same code. What's wrong with that?
You forgot: "Fucking great advert splatted in the middle of the screen, on top of the text." No idea what it was for. As soon as I see one of those I close the tab.
So was it purchased at a public auction or for an undisclosed amount? Unless you have some weird auctions in Oregon it would be difficult not to disclose the amount.
So BP and DuPont aren't a bunch of bastards? It's not their fault they were led astray by the possibility of screwing over the planet to make a few bucks? Are they the real victims here, maybe? Maligned, just for taking advantage of an opportunity to act like bastards. Poor things.
They are not a website. Did you not even read the summary? Christ.
While that makes sense generally, I'm wondering just exactly what the ROI curve for expensive high-energy physics tools like the LHC and Tevatron actually is.
Why do we need to justify it in these terms anyway? What is wrong with doing science just to find things out? Maybe as a species we should try to have loftier ideals in life, rather than grubbing around in the dirt with the bankers, trying to justify our curiosity and thirst for knowledge by thinking up with ways it will make money?
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.