eolas patent revisited

USPTO to re-examine Eolas patent

Predictionish thing:
if ( patent is overturned ) {

Eolas sue USPTO
Case drags on for several years
Outcome irrelevant since things have moved on

} else {

Things continue as they were,
which is to say the outcome will be irrelevant in some other way since things will have moved on

}

yet another bloody manifesto

How does this Comment Spam Manifesto differ from what those of us who give a shit have been doing for some years now? Why is it that every so often, someone collects up a bunch of standard, well-worn geek behaviour, writes about it, and is suddenly hailed as some sort of visionary? (c.f. The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Cluetrain Manifesto, etc.) You may think of it, perhaps, as sour grapes on my part that I didn't do it first; you may also think of it as sheer disbelief not just that someone spent time doing this, but that a whole bunch of other people suddenly realised they had a GOD in their midst. Jeez. Get a grip, people, it's only ones and zeros.

Microsoft vs. EU

Microsoft tangles with the EU:

The company has denied the claims and warned that a guilty verdict would mean a complete overhaul of how it operates.

Explain to me where this is the EU's problem, exactly? Isn't this the whole point of corrective action in the case of anti-trust violations?

and while I'm being cranky...

Why does Wired persist in posting filler crap instead of, say, actual articles?

IRC & cultural awareness

<Wicked187> are you familiar with britain at all?
<Wicked187> my company was founded there...
<hooya> the country?
<Wicked187> so I hear alot about it
<Wicked187> yea
<hooya> yeah
<Wicked187> they have a paper called The Sun
<Wicked187> everyday on page they they have a topless girl in there paper
<Wicked187> er
<Wicked187> on page 3
<Wicked187> it has always been there
<Wicked187> no one complains about it