Comments on: Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents

By: dyfet

dyfet — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:20:07 +0000

Yes! Exactly!

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:17:03 +0000

Yes, the flow of information is very crucial (Wikileaks too).

Just don’t take the Internet for granted as that too is under attack:

http://boingboing.net/2010/09/21/mpaa-actas-censoring.html
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/09/21/2315251

By: Agent_Smith

Agent_Smith — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:50:48 +0000

What awesome moments we’re living in: While people all over the world tries to set free from corporations, we see the dirty tricks, the usual dirty tricks, happening over and over again. Lets keep our spirit, and fight evil with instruction and knowledge. Donate knowledge to someone, anyone, you give something and don’t loose nothing in the process.

By: twitter

twitter — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:33:56 +0000

Software patents must be eliminated not made livable. The EFF and many other groups are mistakenly bolstering Microsoft's effort to make the injustice of software patents something that business can tolerate. Microsoft's move is much like what tobacco companies did to anti-smoking legislation thirty years ago, they channeled public resentment into non threatening forms. Public opinion, especially professional opinion, is against software patents. What Microsoft has asked for will work to advantage of big companies who can afford to defend themselves against bogus patents while using the same to exclude smaller competitors. It would be better to eliminate software patents, which are obnoxious government monopolies on business methods.

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:37:12 +0000

When people in the comments start attacking/threatening other people in the comments section, intervention becomes quite justified. That’s why we introduced a commenting policy last year (no comments deleted, but we defend readers and contributors from harassment).

By: kozmcrae

kozmcrae — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:24:23 +0000

Thanks, that’s good to know. Whoever he/she is, the style is consistent, mostly. The comment of mine he replied to must have touched a nerve because he seems to have lost it there. I try to ignore their insults. One thing they try to do is to drag the discussion down into a garbage filled quagmire of petty squabbles and unrelated topics.

I would really like to tell my grandchildren how the War of Digital Independence was won, in person.

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:01:31 +0000

I'm not sure it's him. It's not his style (too patronising/rude) and he's a grammar Nazi, so I doubt he would have this many typos.

By: kozmcrae

kozmcrae — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:27:24 +0000

So that’s who I’ve been doing battle with (Microsoft Florian). Your descriptions match a tiresome Toll on Computerworld (SJVN’s blog). He posted some comments that mysteriously disappeared in less than 20 minutes. A couple days later Joyce Carpenter (Moderator?) apologized for the missing comments and admitted that she didn’t know why they went missing. No problem. They were so juicy I didn’t hesitate to copy the page.

Here’s the one I believe the Troll called in a favor on:

“Chapman makes a fool of himself again”
Submitted by Anonymous on September 23, 2010 – 9:49 P.M.

“Richard, I’m highly educated. You probably don’t even have a high school education. An MBA is smarter than 99.9% of all the people in the world. So shut up, and don’t try to argue with someone whose smrater than you.”

Whatever my education may be, I know enough to use the built-in spell checker in Firefox. I noticed too that he didn’t say he was an MBA.