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Linus blasts GCC developers-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 25 2007, @10:21AM

An anonymous reader writes "Linus blasted GCC developers on LKML today stating that "The gcc developers seem to have had a total disregard for what people want or need, and every time some code generation issue comes up, there's a lot of people on the list that do language-lawyering, rather than admit that there might be a problem." He also noted OpenBSD's efforts but regarded them as impractical, stating that "I think the OpenBSD people decided to actually do something about this, and I suspect it had *nothing* to do with license issues, and everything to do with these kinds of problems. I wish them all the luck, although personally I think LLVM is a much more interesting project." Read more on the LKML GCC flamewar here : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/25/186"
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IT graveyard: What's died so far this year-> 0

Submitted by

BobB

on Friday October 19 2007, @06:37AM

BobB writes "From the Bill Gates for President campaign to municipal WiFi to a handful of tech startups, 2007 has been a rough year in some parts of the IT industry."
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LOTR Actor Slays Amazon 1-Click Patent 0

Submitted by

theodp

on Tuesday October 16 2007, @04:56AM

theodp writes "A reexam initiated by Lord of the Rings motion capture performer Peter Calveley's do-it-yourself legal effort has prompted the USPTO to reject 21 of the 26 Amazon 1-Click Patent claims. A USPTO Examiner found a 1995 Newsweek article on Digicash submitted by Calveley sufficient to quash a number of the claims, while many others were rejected in light of an e-shopping patent flagged by Calveley. Interestingly, additional claims were rejected by the Examiner in light of a TV remote control patent that was deemed to be unsuitable 1-Click prior art (for not being specific to the Web) in a contest run by the Tim O'Reilly and Jeff Bezos-bankrolled BountyQuest (Amazon last year testified to Congress that the contest failed to find prior art for Bezos' patent). Unfortunately, the action is non-final, so Amazon's high-priced law firm will get another chance to crush Calveley's PayPal-financed effort."