This is the best I can transcribe the important part. Steve Ballmer says, "I think it's great the way Novell stepped up to kinda say intellectual property matters. When people use Red Hat [shrug], at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense, have an obligation to eventually to compensate us."
pcolon
2008-12-13 20:17:07
He keeps saying "intellectual property". Where and what is this IP he keeps referring to.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-13 20:33:04
It's one of those laws you invent when you are unable to compete... A bit like domestic laws that they pass in the US for surveillance, warrantless wiretapping and imprisonment without trial, even torture without reasonable evidence. 'Intellectual' 'property' 'rights' have intellectual about them, they are not tangibles property (just thought) and they are not Mother Nature-given rights. It's about taking away rights (e.g. of competitors or opposing powers).
As imaginary as they are, Microsoft still refuses to name them. Is it the double-click? The tabbed browsing? The smiley? PageUp/Dn?
There's a tendency to think that only graphical interfaces were made to simplify usage, and any declarative interface is by design raw, inherently unfit for usage
"Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19."
It's probably too later to save Julian Assange as a working publisher (he might never recover from the mental torture), but as a person and a father we can wish and work towards his release
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2008-12-13 18:46:06
pcolon
2008-12-13 20:17:07
Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-13 20:33:04
As imaginary as they are, Microsoft still refuses to name them. Is it the double-click? The tabbed browsing? The smiley? PageUp/Dn?