SuSe 9.3 / Re: [conspire] s MEPIS 3.3.1 t2 Gnu / Linux

[Adrien Lamothe]

--- Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Edmund J. Biow <ejb1 at isp.com> wrote:
> 
> > So how about all the crippled multimedia and mp3
> playback that I've read
> > about in SUSE 9.3?  The KDE desktop is supposed to
> be quite a bit faster
> > than previous stripes of SuuuuuuuSE. 
> 
> This is an increasingly frequent problem, as
> distributions become
> headquartered in the homeland of software patents
> and the DMCA (as did
> SUSE Linux) or were already here and become cautious
> (RHEL, Fedora,
> etc.).

Speaking of software patents, the (fairly) recent
judgement in the Sun vs. Kodak case is very amusing.
It had to do with some patents Kodak acquired from
Wang, which Kodak claimed Java violated. Groklaw's
take on it is at:

www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041007164855587&query=Sun+Kodak+judgement

For even more fun, check out the actual patents:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5206951'.WKU.&OS=PN/5206951&RS=PN/5206951
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5421012'.WKU.&OS=PN/5421012&RS=PN/5421012
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,226,161'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,226,161&RS=PN/5,226,161


- Adrien

Design patterns are conceptual constructs that enable
people who don't understand what they are doing to
continue not understanding what they are doing, only
in a different way.



		
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