The point is that they shouldn't claim a trademark on the word "scrolls". Scrolls are a staple of the fantasy genre.

"Elder scrolls", yes, "scrolls", no.

They predict that by 2013 non-OS software will grown to almost half the revenue.

Source.

Middleware (likely JBoss) will be the majority of the non-OS software.

Applications are mostly Java, so that shouldn't be a problem either.

The Native code library (NaCl) will be unportable currently. However, they plan to base the next version on LLVM making that too platform independent.

I actually think CVS did more for "open innovation". Together with Sun sponsoring the various SunSites.

CVS was the first (at least widely used) free server based version control system, and it made it very easy for anyone with a server to setup a free software project. The SunSites were probably the most common hosting platform until SourceForge. Before CVS you either gave collaborators login access so they could work locally on your machine (GNU did that), or relied on sending patches, which Linus did for years. CVS made it so much more convenient. Especially with anonymous CVS which essentially allowed anyone to create their own "fork" that still tracked mainline. A very poor mans github.

CVS was buggy in design and replaced by SVN, and the DVCS's provided another leap ahead in collaboration, so CVS got a bad reputation. But for its time, it was a revolution at least as important as git.

For comparison, North America is 5% is the ncsoft's market for *all* their games (lineage, city of heroes/villains, aion, guild wars). They are not going to base any decision on releasing code on how the game is doing on the North American market.

Lineage (I) was 29% of ncsoft sales in Q4 2010 according to their financial report.

Diablo was inspired by nethack, a roguelike.

The boundaries of the genre are not well defined, but turn-based would usually be considered one of the defining characteristics.

I know it is a joke, but the connection is there. The original rogue is vi-like, adopting the cursor keys of vi.

> Joking aside, I am kind of curious what thuis "as microsoft would have you beiieve" comment is coming from.

This blog post, which was linked to in the article. Especially the last section ("Full Hardware Acceleration is the Difference") would lead the reader to believe that the difference was architectural.

The wording would include all strong or weak copyleft licenses, like GPL, LGPL, MPL, and QPL, but not permissive licenses like the MIT, BSD, or Apache licenses.

The actual test explicitly specified "(dry biomass, after removing the water)".

[ Using "mass" as an informal shorthand for dry mass is common in plant science. Wet weight is used to indicate that water is included. ]

Claim 1-3 cover all client server games with persistent data.

The oldest such game I know of is from 1971, but I'm sure there are examples predates that.

Claim 4-5 adds payment to that. That was not common on the early internet, but common on the for payment BBS's of the 80's.

Claim 6-7 adds "prizes" to the first claim, without defining the term. It would seem to cover any client-server game with a high-score

Claim 8-10 add a physical computer to the above claims: "No sir, this is not a software patent, it is a patent on software running on a computer. Totally different. Down with software patents!".

Jeff Strain formulated it like this: "the team that is best poised to deliver a successful game that is an evolution of WoW is... well, the WoW team".

Here is the EU data on the pesticide.

Some highlights: It is an insecticide, so it should not really surprise that it kills bees. The toxitity to honey bees is well known (LD50 = 0.004 ug/bee, which the document interpret as "high" risk). And it is approved for use in most EU countries, including Italy and Germany.

> Why do you hate the USA?

Because at the time you can make use of malls and navy seals, the game tend to be decided anyway.