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| schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v66YMrf | Oct 24 05:21 |
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| schestowitz | " No ladies of the night to keep Alvind, the pig Kavanaugh and Miz Wrong company ?? Darned shame and this is the city that never sleeps....sigh. " | Oct 24 05:21 |
| schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v8hfcIe | Oct 24 05:21 |
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| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 05:21 |
| schestowitz | IBM has a strategy now ? since when ? | Oct 24 05:21 |
| schestowitz | Alvind and his Pipmunks can't even sit the right way on a toilet seat...neither can the obese pig Kavanaugh. They have no strategy to win....it's falling apart under Mohamed Ali. | Oct 24 05:21 |
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| schestowitz | "https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v8thkDc" | Oct 24 05:22 |
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| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 05:22 |
| schestowitz | Pretty soon the Indians will be kicked out of Antarctica too...not even penguins like these curried farts. | Oct 24 05:22 |
| schestowitz | Is Alvind still holed up in his Penthouse in NYC ? Is Miz Wrong with him for a good time ? | Oct 24 05:22 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 05:22 |
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| schestowitz | <li> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| schestowitz | <h5><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/">Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers</a></h5> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| schestowitz | <blockquote> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| schestowitz | <p>Those dropped from the maintainer list oversee various Linux drivers that provide interoperability with hardware from vendors like Acer and Cirrus Logic. </p> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| schestowitz | </blockquote> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| schestowitz | </li> | Oct 24 10:16 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers • The Register | Oct 24 10:16 | |
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| schestowitz | > Hi Roy, | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > I'm using this temporary address to send you this e-mail, | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > while I've applied for a disroot e-mail address too, tentatively | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > That may take up to 48 hours to be approved, so I can't use it yet. | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | > My name and home address are: | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | Thanks, we can hopefully ship this week. | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | br, | Oct 24 12:01 |
| schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v9qJp0B | Oct 24 12:44 |
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| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 12:44 |
| schestowitz | Guess the beloved Alvind and the pig Kavanaugh have to start chopping heads at the very place where they assumed maximum future growth. Sorry boys, but your strategy does not look like it's working, now or in the future. Maybe you should consider selling another business unit to pay for Alvind's much anticipated multi-million bonus in early 2025. | Oct 24 12:44 |
| schestowitz | There are no sacred cows at Indian Business Machines - pun intended ! | Oct 24 12:44 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 12:44 |
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| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | It is the end of the z16 cycle which by the way has been selling very well overall. 2025 is probably when the next Z machine is coming out... People need to stop this sh-t about mainframe dying. Mainframes will still be here 20+ years from now. | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | Oxk I think you are not paying attention, as their strategy (lower costs) is playing out exactly as they forecast since Jan. SW=up (note all SW buys including redhat contributing significantly) Consulting = flat, BUT margins improving significantly Infrastructure = down due to business cycle (eg mainframe and power due for refresh). Your statement of “selling a business EG lowering cost” does have some truth as the CFO said cost sav | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | ings had been improved to 3.5 billion vs the forecast 3 from last quarter. That means another potential 6.5k head count reduction. NOTE this is on top of the 400 million allocated in 2nd q and the 300-350 million booked yesterday (eg 725 million would equate to approx 9.5k headcount reduction which is very close to the 8k that’s been reported in the USA). The strategy of lowering costs seems to me to be playing exactly as advertised | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | " | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v9qJp0B | Oct 24 13:57 |
| schestowitz | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/board-of-appeal-back-pedals-on-referral.html?showComment=1729673879110#c2721432668420095332 | Oct 24 15:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal back-pedals on referral in view of "unequivocal" lack of legal basis for the description amendment requirement (T 56/21) - The IPKat | Oct 24 15:13 | |
| schestowitz | "Well, I must admit that the chances of members of the UPC's judiciary reading your epi article are <b>much</b> higher than the chances of them spotting my comment on this forum. As relying upon the description of the application as filed resolves the inconsistency that your article points out, then it seems that the patent monopoly profession owes you a debt of gratitude for drawing attention to this problem.<br /><br />Sadly, it seems | Oct 24 15:13 |
| schestowitz | that not even pointing to the obvious implications of such glaring inconsistencies is likely to persuade certain EPO Boards of Appeal that their rather strained (and often circular) interpretations of Article 84 EPC do not correspond with the true object and purpose of that provision. This seems to be because certain individuals cling to such (incorrect) interpretations almost as if they represent an article of faith ... with the conse | Oct 24 15:13 |
| schestowitz | quence that no amount of reasoning or evidence to the contrary will sway them from their beliefs. So long as those individuals retain their current views (and levels of influence within the EPO), there is therefore no chance of a positive resolution to this issue." | Oct 24 15:13 |
| schestowitz | http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/board-of-appeal-back-pedals-on-referral.html?showComment=1729676459247#c7240276702744586848 | Oct 24 15:13 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal back-pedals on referral in view of "unequivocal" lack of legal basis for the description amendment requirement (T 56/21) - The IPKat | Oct 24 15:13 | |
| schestowitz | "Mr Hagel, your "mutual respect" point caught my eye. Over my 50 years of patent monopoly practice I have observed the emergence and refinement of a body of law on matters of patent monopoly validity which is easily the most coherent, the best in all the world. It's the EPO's, of course. If that doesn't deserve great respect, I don't know what does.<br /><br />Conversely, what experience does the EPO have, of patent monopoly i | Oct 24 15:13 |
| schestowitz | nfringement proceedings? Not a lot, to put it mildly.<br /><br />The issue with conforming the description is an ever more awkward one for the EPO. When is the validity of a patent monopoly prejudiced by less than perfect conformity? Is a well-meaning EPO, intoxicated by its success in the adjudication of issues of validity, straying into areas reserved for the courts? There is a very old saying: Let the cobbler stick to his last. Desp | Oct 24 15:13 |
| schestowitz | ite its age, and despite the fact that cobblers are an endangered species, it still has relevance today." | Oct 24 15:13 |
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