Even more venting about the concentrated incompetence (also commonly known as Federal Justice Minister) and the industry chancellor.
No, patents do not strengthen the willingness to innovate or the readiness to invest. They solely strengthen the position of large corporations with plenty of money in their war chest against smaller companies with less money in theirs. Enforcing patents has nothing to do with who is ultimately the inventor - but solely with who can afford a larger legal department and can sustain the longer legal battle.
After kicking patients in the teeth with the proposal to relieve the pharmaceutical industry, now comes the kick in the teeth to the mid-market software industry. Because it is precisely from this sector that innovations often come, yet as a rule they cannot afford all this patent wrangling without a big player backing them up.
And in the process, this dismantles Free Software, which eventually won't be allowed to implement anything anymore because every bit of nonsense gets blocked by stupid trivial patents.
At heise online news there is the original article.
This dialer pack is getting ever more audacious ...
At heise online news you can find the original article.
The city council does not want to renew the contract with the current cultural affairs director - who belongs to the Greens. But they also don't have their own candidate because the one they had lined up simply turned them down. Now the office is supposed to remain vacant for months until they find a suitable candidate for the job. Isn't that amusing? With such an organizational disaster, they seriously wanted to apply to be cultural capital ...
Exciting. Gartner is warning about iPods because they can bypass firewalls and virus scans on mail servers - users can transport data on them. Sure, the same applies to all other mobile hard drives, USB memory sticks, floppy disks and whatever else, but of course they have to explicitly warn about the iPod.
Do the Gartner guys just want to rip off a few iPods from scared enterprises, or are they really that stupid?
The original article is at Engadget - here.
Once a year you're allowed to point this out. Read!
Here's the original article.
I searched groups.google.com for when the first newspostings appeared in which the provider association I started with (as a user and founding member) was referenced. We founded ourselves (OUT e.V. - Domain westfalen.de) in 1993. You can read about this in the association history. However, we initially only had UUCP because we couldn't get an IP connection - the University of Münster refused to connect us, contrary to the DFN's directional guidelines. From 1995 onwards we had a connection through a local provider. And on May 1, 1995, the first posting was archived in which one of our users provided his homepage. Unfortunately http://archive.org/ doesn't go back far enough, the first homepages would be quite interesting... Here's the original article.
What kind of economic experts are these supposed to be? Probably some university armchair theorists who have never had to do serious work and therefore have no idea what work actually means. How workers toil themselves to exhaustion, and that's already at the 40-hour workload that's unfortunately become normal again. But that doesn't interest any of the experts, on none of the involved sides. They couldn't care less - as long as they can spout their intellectual nonsense.
I experienced firsthand with my father how his health suffered more and more from work and was relieved that he was able to take early retirement. But for these armchair theorists, work apparently consists of spouting stupid comments in some tabloid interview...
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.