Comment Prior art! (Score 1) 123
All Apple's iPad patents are invalid!
Submission + - Copyright Troll Defies Court in Domain Name Ruling 1
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Copyright troll Righthaven makes their money by coercing defendants of alleged copyright infringement into settling with them with threats of $150,000 in damages and forfeiture of the defendants’ website domain names. Now EFF reports that Chief Judge Hunt of the federal court in Nevada, which is overseeing more than 200 Righthaven copyright cases, has dismissed Righthaven's meritless claim to seize its victim's domain names. Righthaven contended that the mere hosting of any infringing material meant that the entire domain name was forfeit but the judge rejected that claim, explaining that the "Court finds that Righthaven’s request for such relief fails as a matter of law and is dismissed." But now Righthaven has filed a new copyright case in Nevada federal court that not only demands forfeiture of the domain name but has asked the Court to "order the surrender to Righthaven of all hardware, software, electronic media and domains, including the Domain used to store, disseminate and display the unauthorized versions of any and all copyrighted works." The new complaint also asserts that Righthaven holds the "exclusive rights" to Stephens Media news articles, despite the Strategic Alliance Agreement showing that Stephens Media retains these rights."
Comment Re:Of course... (Score 1) 542
What a wonderful world!
Comment Re:translation hard to understand... (Score 1) 442
The problem is that presentations made with Powerpoint 2007+ often don't display in the right way on Impress. People don't even understand this and they are unable to hadle the difference and blame linux for it, instead of Microsoft. Nobody will ever try to make a presentation that is compatible with anything else than Powerpoint because they don't understand the problem. I had to throw money on office licences for my company just for this. It's sad but it's the reality.
Comment Re:Mac OS X (Score 1) 245
And it's quite likely that the open source drivers will not be as capable or high performance as the proprietary drivers.
Why?
Comment Reapers! (Score 1) 422
I blame them
Comment Re:And the Linux ads? (Score 1) 220
IBM and Red Hat Linux Ads are very good, better than Apple's reality distortion field ones.
Comment Fat kids can't hide... (Score 1) 553
... and they lag irl
Comment Re:Pizza Hut in Germany (Score 1) 920
You can't be italian and say the best pizza you had is in a Pizza Hut in Germany. LOL
Pizza outside Italy is a different thing. The american one is a variation, a good one if you like it, but it's another thing. In other european countries it just sucks.
Comment Re:I think I know why he is "Former" (Score 1) 541
He was the head until he revealed this ridiculous hunch of his, and that's when they made him "former"
The project ended in 2002
Comment Re:People just don't understand Linux (Score 1) 833
If you want Linux to gain acceptance, you need to stop with the hyperbole and start accepting the truth. The truth is:
- There is no common way to install and remove software. - There is no stable base to write drivers (thus no hardware support) - There are too many distros with too many proprietary ways of doing things. Too many proprietary repositories, too many proprietary package systems, to many proprietary filesystem layouts.
To be honest, Linux doesn't need to gain acceptance. It already has it, you just don't see it. It will never be on the desktop pc of the common user but the desktop pc as we know it won't last long. On different devices users interact with linux without problems because the point is not the underlaying operating system but the interface you interact with. Android is an example, the average user's Sony camera is another, and so many others. And you can't even say there's not hardware support, as in facts, Linux runs on old and modern pc hardware, on cameras, on network equip and appliances of all kinds, on ip phones, on mobile phones, on 87% of supercomputers, on consoles, etc. Oh, and there are no proprietary things in linux distributions.
