As an European security consultant I'll have to use this case as reminder to my customers that there are serious unpredictable political risks in using US-based cloud services.
I like EC2. This was a very bad advertisement for them and all cloud providers.
I use Wuala to keep files identically in Windows and Linux. Likely works with Mac as well. I find it quite cool.
I hope that the test was done so that it tells how many times you can fetch some page with your battery.
Otherwise, it is natural that IE8 wins. It is no wonder that it does not use battery because it is slower than others.
There seems to be an interesting Firefox add-on what is quite much like Facebook but p2p. All the data is shared with your friends but only with your friends. No server at all.
Handier that trying to encrypt via Facebook.
I agree that in this case patents are working as they are supposed to. I have read the patent and it is as good as software patent can be. I had never thought separating XML tags from the text.
Could it be that Microsoft announced it's very weak XML patent just before this case to get people confused. "Microsoft XML patent case" may mean both the very weak XML patent by Microsoft or the strong XML patent against Microsoft.
The research was conducted by going through the huge pile of material that was collected from client computers to Mozilla servers...
this is severely damaging both the US and global software industries
No, US software patents damage only US software industries.
Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done.
