First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Well more or less. Its no broad invalidation thats been done. But the line has moved. So if someone should go to court and try to get it invalidated it might work to get it invalid.

But that cost alot of money. And its not 100% sure that it will work. It depends on the court what they say. So it can also take along time to get it invalidated. The owner of the patent will probably make sure to draw it out so expect several years of patent ligiation.

So people just mostly wait for patent to expire.

Saying that Clinton could not beat Trump is kinda strange given that it looks like she will do just that.

Clinton looks to win the total vote tally. She just lost some important swing states that gave Trump the electorial win and this the presidency.

This is the second time this happend in recent decades and its the second time a republican become president becaus of it.

Might be good if USA removed the electors and instead just counted the total votes and not made it so that some votes are more important then others.

This is not a patent case. Its a copyright case.

It was not Oracle who open sourced Java. It was Sun.

Oracle later bought Sun. They did not really get any worth from it. So now they use the normal way for those that can't innovate - they sue those that make money and hope they get lucky.

As for Java sucking - thats was mostly Microsofts doing; for having a version that was incompatible with the other versions.

As people in sweden speak swedish and Slashdot usually only link to english news sources.

So swedens media articles about it are not linked too.

As for the decision I think its good that there are laws stopping not needed public survelliance.

That are still protected by copyright.

No its a technical struggle.

The UNIX philosofy is to make many smaller programs that does one thing and does it well. From a bug point of view that been godsend; smaller programs are easier to debug and test.

Large complex programs will always be a problem. Like webb browsers and systemd. The more complex a program becomes and the more it does the more complex is it to write secure code for all situations.

Humanity build like 50 mobile phones per second. And they are all much more complex then the things you bring up.

So what you propose is easy.

The courts however - they do take them seriously.

Which means that for a normal user of Linux. Running anti-virus is useless.

You only run anti-virus on Linux mail servers.

First 2 seasons they where based in texas. Its mirroring the fact that Compaq was an off-shoot from Texas intruments. Compaq was the first company that reverse engineered the BIOS.

But even in the far away places the tempererature is rising.

So even if you remove all places where cities may have influenced it - nothing change - the world is still getting warmer.

So scientists has looked at this and the status is unchanged. The world is warming.

Actually no we won't. The cost of flooding and storms will cost more then the normal BNP growth if nothing is done.

So the world will be less good off, if we don't do anything about climate change.

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