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I do love the style that doth , on occasion, grace thine canoical threads. | 396 comments | Create New Account
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I do love the style that doth , on occasion, grace thine canoical threads.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:51 PM EDT
And yet the text that may be found upon this very comment may verily be
construed to be but an illusion of the mind.

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Impertinence
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:54 PM EDT
click me for a tasty irrelevency.

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Shakespeare's Hokey Pokey
Authored by: mexaly on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 01:55 PM EDT

clickest thou, and gently

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Thanks to our hosts and the legal experts that make Groklaw great.

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Google Drive officially launches with 5GB free storage, Google Docs integration
Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 03:40 PM EDT
Google Drive officially launches with 5GB free storage, Google Docs integration

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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"I am more an antique Roman than a Finn"
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 03:59 PM EDT
'Zounds! From The Times that speak to the Geeks:
Nokia downgraded to 'junk'
Sylvie Barak
Another quarter of disastrous financial results for Nokia last week, with a quarterly loss of $1.7 billion, has led to the Finnish phone maker’s debt being downgraded to “negative” and even “junk” by major financial consultants.
Exeunt Omnes [Loosly translated: "We all gotta go sometime".]

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Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 06:18 PM EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publish
ers-prices

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from
publications that keep articles behind paywalls

"Other universities are likely to follow Harvard's example on this. If it
starts at a university with the stature of Harvard, they will take a long hard
look at whether this is something that makes sense for them to do as well.
People watch Harvard. There's no grey area there."

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Apple prefers everyone invent their own stuff
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 07:08 PM EDT

According to an article on cnet:

"I would highly prefer to settle than to battle," he said. "But it's important that Apple not become the developer for the world. We need people to invent their own stuff."
So... Mr. Cook... does that mean Apple will no longer be infringing Motorolas patents? Or are you saying it's ok for Apple to use similar technology to others, but others can't use similar technology to Apple?

Wait.... if Apple uses similar technology to others.... doesn't that mean others automatically use similar technology to Apple because Apple choose that route?

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we prefer to reject the idea that many can individually invent the same technology yet we wish to block them while ignoring the fact they have just as much right to the "inventions".

RAS

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Untopical matters of no great relevance
Authored by: red floyd on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 07:14 PM EDT
Verily, kind sir, hast thou brought a grace unto these pages. It seemeth to me
that the noble PJ ought find thy scribings most pleasing fair!

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States of America.

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Google Drive ToS - We own ALL your stuff
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 04:51 AM EDT
Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
Zack Whittaker, CNET

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Oyez Oyez! It comes to pass this day the soothsayer doth prevail.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 11:59 AM EDT
not sure i can really do the style justice.

When the Wise One finally gets what he deserves and all the API are belong unto
him.

Does it then come to pass that Red Hat may be in a position force the Wise One
into having to GPL all his stuff?
Including the TCK?

'LOLarry<wave>

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An API is...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT
The sound made by the tree that fell when you weren't there.

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Oracle-Google case shows patent system flaws
Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 02:03 PM EDT
Today's Dot.Commentary by James Temple, Chronicle Columnist: San Francisco Chronicle
"It's approaching crisis levels," said James Bessen, a lecturer at Boston University School of Law and co-author of "Patent Failure." "In most industries, the patent system has become a disincentive to innovation."

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Litigation Fatigue Cited as Apple, Microsoft Try to Sway Judges
Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 02:11 PM EDT
From Bloomberg via San Francisco Chronicle:
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook, in the wake of a preliminary finding yesterday that it infringed one of four Motorola Mobility smartphone patents, said the company would “highly prefer to settle versus battle” over patents.

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Nokia, HTC win European patent ruling
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 02:28 PM EDT
linky . End of this IPCom patent case (for now)?

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Clients responsible for phishing losses
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT
"The German Federal Court of Justice in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe said on Tuesday that clients, and not banks, are responsible for money lost in online phishing scams. link

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  • Makes sense - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 02:49 PM EDT
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