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“Your criticisms are completely wrong”
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 12:53 AM EST
> Stallman's long hair, shaggy beard, and potbelly make him look
> like a kind of tech-age guru, a software Buddha.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/your-criticisms-are-completely-wrong-
stallman-on-software-patents/

The Buddha is always shown clean shaven with his hair neatly tied up.
Arstechnica's photo at the top of the article shows the old testament
patriarch Stallman, even tho' he eschews credit as father of open source.

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iPad mini added to accused devices
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 02:55 AM EST
The verge

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Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 22 2012 @ 12:11 PM EST

And if the Laws are left up to Corporations, that 15 year old will be brought up on charges of patent infringement.

Why?

Simple: re-using old thrown out junk means he didn't buy new products which equates to a loss of profit for companies making competing products to what he has built and therefore he has stolen from them.

Caveat: this is my humble opinion of all the behavior I see coming from Corporations such as - and certainly not limited to:

    HP - apparently doesn't understand why pretending to be someone else in order to acquire personal information they would not otherwise have unless they went through proper Legal routes is wrong (or they used to not understand under the previous leadership)
    Sony BMG - apparently doesn't understand why installing rootkit software and placing terms on consumers such as "you will destroy the music cd you legally purchased if you move out of the area you purchased it in and buy a new one" is wrong
    Sony Entertainment - apparently doesn't understand why hobbling a device someone has already legally purchased is wrong
    Apple - apparently doesn't understand why someone did not "steal" their property when the Law has decreeed that they did not
    MS - apparently doesn't understand that when consumers say they - they consumer - owns their - the consumer's - information that they decide to move from MS because MS holds the consumer's information for ransom (vendor lockin)
    Gene Quinn - apparently doesn't understand the Supreme's overrule the Federal Circuit (I say apparent but he's a Lawyer and in full understanding of the relationships but has a vested interest for software patents)
    RIAA - apparently doesn't understand that unauthorized really does not necessarily equate to illegal
I could go on with tons, tons more examples. But I believe I've provide sufficient background to show how I arrived at my conclusion of what the Corporations likely want to do to that 15 year old.

RAS

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