AndyCR - Slashdot User

Comment This makes no sense. (Score 2, Insightful) 132

by AndyCR on Sunday October 12, 2008 @10:34PM (#25350303) Attached to: English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software

First of all, you don't "patent" software - you patent portions of software. Patenting entire pieces of software would make no sense, as it would do nearly the same darned thing as copyrighting it. Second, what defines complex? All software ideas are complex. Is a BSP tree sufficiently complex? I imagine so, and a patent on that would have decimated the game industry early on.

Submission + - Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded 1

Submitted by Rob on Friday September 21, 2007 @07:19AM

Rob writes: Computer Business Review is reporting that less than 2% of UK-based firms have already upgraded all their desktops to Windows Vista. Just shy of 5% said that they have begun a Windows Vista desktop upgrade program. 6.5% said they will upgrade in the next 6 months; 12.6% in the next 12 months; 13% in the next 18 months; and 18% in the next two years. That means that within two years from now, only 56% of survey respondents say they will have upgraded their firm's desktops to Windows Vista.

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