Banned Microsoft Commercial Shows the Effect of Patent Armageddon (Updated)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2007-10-25 09:24:47 UTC
Modified: 2007-11-26 23:39:31 UTC
...Not exactly a patent Armageddon, but what makes this violent advertising an excellent example is the fact that, unlike cold wars, no real weapons are involved (only junk patents).
It can hopefully be understood how this relates to a patent maze that involved many parties such as OIN (IBM, Oracle, Google, etc.), incognito patent trolls, Novell, and Microsoft.
This commercial led to a big storm in the media when children at a school mimicked it (used it as an example). This could end up deadly because any fake game can be seen as real from afar.
Update (26/11/2007): the video above has been removed. Here is a link that works with an embedment (streaming Flash) below.
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Scott Mace
2007-11-26 23:22:33
YouTube has removed this video. Any idea where to find it now?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-11-26 23:37:28
You're right. It seems to have been removed. I'm updating this blog item to include a reference that works (see second embedment).
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
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Scott Mace
2007-11-26 23:22:33
Roy Schestowitz
2007-11-26 23:37:28