Posts by DuTchie

Burger me! Microsoft's chainsaw rampage through sacred cow herd

Re: Interesting times.

Actually they should concentrate on the hardware to attract people. I'm usually pretty dismissive of what Microsoft does, but have recently moved to using a Surface Pro 3 for all my development work, and it works nicely. Plugin in a 34UW monitor and a keyboard and it's great in the office and unplugged it's perfect when on the move.

Samsung claims Apple jury foreman LIED to get REVENGE

Check out his interview to the BBC, he clearly has no clue about prior art. He thinks a patent is not invalidated by prior art because the prior software cannot run on the same processor! And this is what he told the other jury members.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19425051

And most damning: Q: "Do you think if you hadn't been on the jury then we might have ended up with a very different verdict?" A: "I think so. But let's not say me specifically. "

Germany stalls over ACTA treaty ratification

@Turtle, ACTA will actually kill people. For example Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctor Without Borders) get over 80% of their AIDS medicines from generic producers in India, which ACTA intends to stop. So those people it is treating will die without these drugs. One of the many reasons ACTA must be stopped. See http://www.msf.org.uk/handsoff.aspx

Oracle wins round in Java patent lawsuit against Google

If Google had done the right thing, and had licensed Java rather than just using it anyway, perhaps Sun would have had enough revenue from Android licenses to remained independent...

King of the geeks leaves Oracle

You obviously have never done any large and serious coding

"Java is a huge failure and not an innovation. Everything large&serious must still be done in C++, Pascal, Fortran or some other ALGOL-like, compiled language"

You obviously have never done any large and serious coding to make such a sweeping statement.