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schestowitzFwd: Cryptocurrencies and blockchain - are there patentable inventions in these industries? #askbastianAug 08 03:01
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schestowitzIn today’s video I explain why cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and FinTech in general is so interesting from a patent attorney prespective.Aug 08 03:01
schestowitzI also give examples of what’s patentable and what’s not:Aug 08 03:01
schestowitzHow to patent cryptocurrency and blockchain technology? #askbastianAug 08 03:01
schestowitzHow to patent cryptocurrency and blockchain technology? #askbastianAug 08 03:01
schestowitzThanks to Anthony Ajanaku for the great question during my recent interview for the IP Business Academy. Aug 08 03:01
schestowitz👉 What’s your question about patents for the digital future? Hit reply and ask away.Aug 08 03:01
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schestowitzBastian Best interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4He4hm0-EAug 08 03:01
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.youtube.com | Patents in the Digital Transformation - IP Business Talk with Mr. Best - YouTubeAug 08 03:01
schestowitzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4He4hm0-EAug 08 03:01
schestowitz> Interviewer is from here:Aug 08 03:02
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schestowitz> https://ipbusinessacademy.org/Aug 08 03:02
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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-ipbusinessacademy.org | IP Business Academy - Your global IP-Management Education PlatformAug 08 03:02
schestowitz> All the blog posts are mostly swpat...Aug 08 03:02
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schestowitzhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28077963Aug 08 16:46
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schestowitzBe warned that techrights is ... not always what one might call entirely reliable. They published a bunch of Andrew Lee apologia when the freenode debacle was in full swing.Aug 08 16:46
schestowitz(and the whole "concerns are growing" thing is IMO a rhetorical dark pattern, even if I -do- worry for the future of my preferred browser)Aug 08 16:46
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-news.ycombinator.com | Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management | Hacker NewsAug 08 16:46
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schestowitzdralley 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:46
schestowitzI'll take that one step further and say that they post total nonsense and speculation on a regular basis.Aug 08 16:46
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schestowitzmst 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:46
schestowitzI have only seen the Clown Prince Apologia posts.Aug 08 16:46
schestowitzAdmittedly they gave me a laugh while I was in the middle of helping cat herd the exodus to libera, but it was definitely a "laughing at" not a "laughing with".Aug 08 16:46
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schestowitzdagsdgfhdgdj 1 day ago [–]Aug 08 16:46
schestowitzTechrights also reposted the rather crazy ramblings from the page on the debian . community domain when that was going on. Seems like a page run by crazy people.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzslapfrog 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzWell I'm glad I listened to what he had to say before I came to the comments here to get discouraged. I've been using firefox since 2005, and hope to continue using firefox, but I have serious concerns about the way things are heading and this guy did a good job of articulating what I feel about it. Firefox is hemorrhaging users and if they don't change course, I fear I might become part of that trend.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzpreinheimer 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzWe maintain an add-on for our customers. For a long time Firefox was where we did our development, and released first. Their process was quick & easy, and a lot less confusing to navigate than Chrome/Edge.Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzSomething on their end changed for which add-ons would require manual review. So a minor update (bug fixes, and a UI addition) has been in queue for review since June 22nd. We went from waiting hours to 6+ weeks at this point. There's plenty of frustrated people in their forums, but no real answers.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzcpeterso 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzI work on Mozilla's Firefox team. I asked the Add-ons team's community manager about your stalled review and they said that is very unusual. If you email me the details about your add-on (to my email address in my HN profile), I can pass them on.Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzThe Add-ons community manager said they think you might have posted on the Add-ons forums today about your stalled review. They will follow up in the forums.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitztroyvit 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzI gotta say I read the article and it didn't make much sense. It seemed to make a lot of loosely connected accusations without any external evidence to back them up. I lasted three minutes into the video and heard just more of the same.Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzI bet Mozilla does have a ton of problems. They're a non-profit that has been around forever and has more reputation and influence than its undersized user-base would imply. That's going to make it a weird organization. But before I would go so far as to believe that "Firefox cannot be trusted" I'd need to see some harder evidence.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzavmich 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzCan Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzwmf 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzThere are various Firefox forks already (the ones I'm aware of are for old OSes) but there aren't enough people to sustain them.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzJPLeRouzic 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzWhen Firefox/phoenix was created, it was essentially by two people, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross, isn't?Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzwmf 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzFirefox was based on the existing Mozilla codebase maintained by dozens or hundreds of engineers. Likewise, as long as Firefox is actively maintained by Mozilla it only takes 1-2 people to maintain a small fork. But if Mozilla goes out of business and Firefox becomes completely unmaintained all of the forks will also die.Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzgary_0 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:47
schestowitzDepending on your definition of "fork", Firefox has been forked in cases like the Tor Browser or IceWeasel. But starting a completely separate organization that could keep its isolated Firefox fork competitive with Chromium would require a massive amount of resources. Mozilla employs hundreds of full-time engineers (although that number is declining).Aug 08 16:47
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schestowitzPedroBatista 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzYes, but the doe tho..Aug 08 16:48
schestowitz99% of the time, it's not a technical problem.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzcoldacid 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzI'm running Waterfox, and I've heard good things about Basilisk for people who want/need to keep the old XUL ways alive.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzjohnasmith 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzIt seems presumptuous to speculatively be outraged and it seems unfair to assume that because a person was once employed by Facebook, their efforts at Mozilla will be corruptive. Lets wait and see.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzjmclnx 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzMaybe, but what does that mean ? we trust Google and Chrome ?Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzI still trust Firefox way more than Chrome, Edge, IE and maybe whatever Apple has (never used Apple).Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzI really wish there was a browser that is not a pig, works very well and keeps things private.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitznyx-aiur 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzIn the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzluckylion 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzAccording to statcounter.com, Firefox is already on the level of Edge and Samsung Internet, with 3.45% market share globally. US: even slightly lower at 3.44%, down from 4.3% a year ago. Europe is still higher, Germany at 12%, France at 7%, but also falling rapidly.Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzThe future is now.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitztroyvit 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzYeah and the future is a monolithic browser stack controlled by one one of the largest corporations in the world.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzphendrenad2 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzAgreed. However, as you can tell from the downvotes, that will alienate a lot of people who believe that by using a Chromium fork, you're somehow giving over control of the web to Google. Which is ridiculous, as Google has lost control of the Chromium project due to Brave and Edge butting their ugly heads in. It's now the Linux kernel of web browsers. Prove me wrong.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzcoldacid 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:48
schestowitzI'm ready to just give up entirely on HTML/CSS/JS on HTTP when that happens. Fuck monocultures.Aug 08 16:48
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schestowitzwayneftw 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzYeah, every Linux distro is just terrible now because of the Linux kernel monoculture.Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzChromium is ~5 million lines of open source code. That's so unwieldy and impossible for anyone but Google or Microsoft to maintain right?Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzMeanwhile the Linux kernel is ~28 million lines.Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzOh wait, there's also a Brave. Didn't they announce that they will not implement parts of Chromes manifest v3? Crazy how Google has so much control over open source code.Aug 08 16:49
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schestowitzShadonototro 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzi used to use Firefox and i was recommending it to everyoneAug 08 16:49
schestowitzthen they became lazy, refused to fix performance issues, and the salary of their CEO started to skyrocketAug 08 16:49
schestowitzthen chrome came, and i uninstalled firefox and stopped recomanding itAug 08 16:49
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schestowitzfirefox is open source gone wrong, that's what happen when you factor in capitalism and try to profit from the free labor of benevolentAug 08 16:49
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schestowitzPicassoCTs 2 days ago [–]Aug 08 16:49
schestowitzOpen Source Foundations should regularly die and be reborn in a competition of forks. While the foundation is not yet reborn, a base-staff should host a "stable" version until a new beloved, creature emerges and the foundation re-forms around it.Aug 08 16:49
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