Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally 311

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:50AM from the so-funny-i-forgot-to-laugh dept.

eburnette writes "A former Sun/Oracle employee explains how developers created patents in an unofficial contest to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system. James Gosling said, '... we got sued, and lost. The penalty was huge. Nearly put us out of business. We survived, but to help protect us from future suits we went on a patenting binge. Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure. There was even an unofficial competition to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system. My entry wasn't nearly the goofiest.' Now Oracle is using patents from the same folks as the basis for its lawsuit against Google."

Feed Macworld: News: Fake Steve Jobs unmasked as Forbes editor (macworld.com)

From feed by macworldfeed on Monday August 06, 2007 @10:52AM

The New York Times has outed the "real" Fake Steve Jobs, author of "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" blog.

Feed The Register: Yahoo to start optimising for mobile (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @12:12PM

Same technology as Vodafone, but without the glitches

Yahoo is planning to use Novarra's mobile-optimising technology, as Vodafone did last month, though hopefully without causing so many problems for m-commerce sites.

Journal Journal: trisetia

Journal by adhisimon on Wednesday September 29, 2004 @03:23AM

Sekarang gua nge-maintain server-server di ts lebih banyak lewat remote. Segala berita2 mengenai ts dapat dilihat di http://trisetia.blogspot.com/.

Network statistik dapat di lihat di http://noc.trisetia.net/.

Weblog pribadi gua dapat dilihat juga di http://adhisimon.blogspot.com/

Comment You forget somes:almost free hardware makes sense (Score 1) 993

by adhisimon on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @04:03AM (#8723255) Attached to: Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free

Technology will always improve.

Entire AppleII can be put on a $20 FPGA because of the improvements in technology.

But you forget about improvements in technology will also create new stuffs. Very new stuffs. And when it still not common, not common hardware maker can produce it and it will have a high price!

Journal Journal: web based file manager

Journal by adhisimon on Sunday February 22, 2004 @06:45PM

i'm currenty searching for suitable file manager based on web. it's intent to be used by my web hosting service.

i found some candidates at the sourceforges:

phylex
quixplorer
webmanage

which is the best? i'll explore that in this week and hope can report my exploration as soon as possible.