The law already says that you can't patent anything already obvious to those familiar with the art, or technology, in the area to which your patent applies (I paraphrase).

One should already be able to overturn any obvious patent.

The problem is that some patent examiners are good, some are less so - I know this from firsthand experience.

One opinion on the matter here:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html

The reason, I think, is the population density. Japan, Korea and most developed European countries have huge populations in relatively small areas. Australia resembles the US model much more closely.

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Fuck you and fuck Microsoft. This is about stupidity of the USPTO.

On the other hand, maybe it isn't stupidity. Lots of dough at Redmond to throw around.

The only difference between RHEL and CentOS is that the CentOS developers aren't selling support for their particular Linux derivative.

Actually, they do and CentOS isn't their Linux derivative - it is RHEL source repackaged to exclude RH branding.

The difference is that you can't obtain/use RHEL installation media or get RHEL software updates without paying for RH Network license. Well, you can - RHEL source RPMs are available for free, you're welcome to build binaries at your will (that's what CentOS does). CentOS also provides install media and patches to public for free. It is up to the users to decide whether they want paid support (not to be confused with software patches) by CentOS, someone else or do support themselves.

Informative, +1

Who cares, even if they do. PostgreSQL is better.

No. CentOS is a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise. RHE is not only server distribution.

Oh, fuck off already with this. It is much more accurate than MicroWEREALLABOUTUSERSoft.

It would be prudent to note that the proposal came from the previous (Labour) government, who were out of touch with reality on most other issues, too.

I'd swap with this man if job is somewhere in South Pacific. Present location is a bit too cool.

This is discussion about Linux Enterprise offerings.

It's all over now. You clearly lost the argument when you used automobiles analogy.

You can skip that crap, better watch Tri Nations mid year. To prepare for it, tune into Super 14 second weekend from today.

There isn't many people who hate Windows more than I do. I came to hate it working for years as a support engineer. It was taking too much of my time, even though my primary job was Linux servers and firewalls. So I left the salaried work to make my living doing only what I want - and that's Linux support. And I agree with you - Linux is a better solution for all our parents.

Your claim that you needed a full week to setup a Windows machine so it is safe and usable is simply a bullshit, however. Takes a bit of time but not more than half a day to do it, all annoying balloons disabled included.