Comment Dog (Score 1) 2
In the passport Control Office, Nobody knows you are a dog or the king.
Comment Retail Cost is $10/year (Score 1) 1
You can get a desktop subscription for $10/year/machine from Novell. A Server subscription is retailed for $799/year/machine
Comment Re:Oh! that. I thought the laptops have become obe (Score 1) 246
Me too, But I am dysleixc.
Comment Re:Too late! (Score 1) 184
Software Freedom Day 2009
Great idea telling us today...plenty of time to get the local effort organised!
This is not funny. I wish I had known about this so I could organize a local event.
Thanks for telling us so late. (sarcastic)
Comment I might get stoned for this. How About Novell ZAM (Score 1) 251
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/assetmanagement/
Features
Complete View of IT Assets
software license compliance
Elimination of manual tracking and inventory gathering
Change notification
custom reporting
Integrated Management
Automated discovery
Detailed software and hardware inventory
Software usage tracking
Contract management
Comment Eye for an Eye (Score 2, Insightful) 219
Some day soon, corporations will realize that they have to unite and collaborate better. I am glad that this is happening, Maybe this will be a unifying force that will promote cooperations like Open Invention Network and fight enemies like Microsoft, NTP and this little bugger.
There should be patent free open standards like IP that everyone can use and build on. What if google had to pay a fraction of a cent for every IP packet as royalty. Would it have taken off in it's infancy. Hell, would internet taken off ?
There should be patent free open standards like IP that everyone can use and build on. What if google had to pay a fraction of a cent for every IP packet as royalty. Would it have taken off in it's infancy. Hell, would internet taken off ?
Journal Journal: Microsoft closed down by Ecuadorian IRS
I just couln't let this pass. Forbes reports that the Ecuadorian IRS has closed down the offices of Microsoft in Ecuador temporarily. This is quite remarkable, since I as an Ecuadorian never expected them to actually go and close down the operation. This will probably be resolved soon, but still is still worth knowing.
Submission + - Court Limits Software Patents
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt has the scoop on how a recent court ruling may severely limit the scope of both software and business model patents. The court found that "The routine addition of modern electronics to an otherwise unpatentable invention" isn't enough to get over the "non-obvious" hurdle that every patent is supposed to clear. This is a huge step in the right direction and one of the first admissions from the court system that perhaps software and business model patents have gone too far.
Submission + - Linux group calls Microsoft's bluff
Stony Stevenson writes: The head of the Open Invention Network (OIN) has dismissed Microsoft's claims that Linux violates over 200 of its patents. OIN chief executive Jerry Rosenthal said that Microsoft's assertions are simply an attempt to undermine the open source movement.
"The FUD is clear. If you have a patent that you are proud of, then disclose it," he said. "If your patent is a good patent then you are not worried about revealing it before going to court because you would be confident of success." Rosenthal believes that, if there are grounds for patent infringement, there would either be easy workarounds or the open source community would find 'prior art' which would invalidate the patent.
"The FUD is clear. If you have a patent that you are proud of, then disclose it," he said. "If your patent is a good patent then you are not worried about revealing it before going to court because you would be confident of success." Rosenthal believes that, if there are grounds for patent infringement, there would either be easy workarounds or the open source community would find 'prior art' which would invalidate the patent.
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The meat is rotten, but the booze is holding out. Computer translation of "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
