____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 September 2007 22:44 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Facebook was my idea, says yet another ex-Harvard student
>>
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>>| Another former Harvard student has come forward claiming to have invented a
>>| precursor to social networking giant Facebook. Aaron Greenspan has written
>>| an unpublished book detailing his claims.
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/06/greenspan_claims_facebook_idea/
>>
>> So a bunch of connected profiles is now an 'idea'? What has society sunk to?
>
> The US's litigation and patent culture is achieving a new, lower,
> plateau. Probably somebody will call it capitalism, soon.
This is utterly disgusting. I posted a link to this yesterday. Rather than
repeating similar arguments, here it is:
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| Now, this is enough to me. I don't fucking care who is infringing whose
| patents. It's more and more clear that patents (all kind of patents!) don't
| do anything to the benefit of the public. They're not good for the humanity
| at large, but only to lawyers.
|
| And when you see how two major IT actors are trying to make money from
| lawsuits instead of making profit from the technologies they're supposed to
| develop, you have all the rights in the world to think that the current
| Establishment is broken.
|
| Because it is broken. You can see it every day with U.S.-based companies.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/09/06/08/55/23-netapp-sun-legal-havoc
>> Intel sued over 'dual-core' branding
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>>| Intel is being sued in a trademark case over the use of the term "dual
>>| core" in its product labeling.
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>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6206470.html
>>
>> Apple may face lawsuit over iPod Touch moniker
>>
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>>| High Tech Computer (HTC) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Thursday with a
>>| rare compliment from Apple: the company adopted the same name HTC uses on
>>| one of its smartphones for the iPod Touch.
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>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070906/tc_infoworld/91616
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~~ Best of wishes
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to
everything it touches."
--Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
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