Submission + - Linked lists are patented (google.com)
Comment Not good (Score 1) 195
It seems that Apple has really been putting some steam behind using patents as weapons. Interesting article at Forbes about this whole Samsung vs. Apple mess: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/08/24/why-apple-went-to-dusseldorf/
Comment new travel industry spinoff (Score 1) 237
It will be interesting to see how fast there's multiple companies offering these sort of trips. Naturally prices will go down and maybe time on space gets longer.
Submission + - 25,000 Danish hospital staff move to LibreOffice (www.osor.eu)
An anonymous reader writes: Almost all of the 25,000 workers at thirteen hospitals in the Copenhagen region will over the next year begin to use Libre Office, an open source suite of office productivity tools. The group of hospitals is phasing out a proprietary alternative, 'for long term strategic reasons', which at the same time saves the group some 40 million Kroner (about 5.3 million euro) worth of proprietary licences.
