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Submission + - Researchers bring Web access to developing regions (itworldcanada.com)

eaoliver writes: "Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario released a beta version of an open source technology designed to give developing regions access to the Web for e-mail and for information on agricultural best practices and health care. How this could facilitate rural business process outsourcing."

Comment Re:Patent Troll (Score 1) 191

As for as I know Linus trade marked the word linux, he did not copyright it. Anyone can claim a trade mark as long as it has not been trade marked before. There is not requirement to prove no one used the word before just that they did not trademark it.

And I am not naive just cynical that RH will continue to be a good guy 5 or 10 years from now

Comment Re:Patent Troll (Score 2, Informative) 191

You are aware they aren't patenting things to prevent others from using those concepts or to change a fee to use the process. Instead they are doing it as a defensive measure against the likes of SCOs, M$ and greedy lawyers. They aren't patent trolls, they are protecting themselves and the Linux.

You don't need a patent for that just prior art in the wild

Comment Re:No kidding! (Score 1) 601

Actually there usually is a blind spot in most cars unless you have curved mirrors. However curved mirrors make it hard to judge distance. As all responsible drivers know you check your blind spot (By looking over shoulder) before changing lanes. Just because someone is in your blind spot does not mean its their fault you hit them.

Comment Re:brilliant or dangerous? (Score 1) 1134

I had an instructor who loved this procedure he called it the Universal Conservation of Grief principle. You either put in the time(greif) at the start of a project, thinking about the problem properly. Or on the last feature which is ridiculously easy if only you had used a slightly different architecture but would not require major code rewrites.

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