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“Microsoft already spends a huge amount of money on patent settlements…That number will creep upwards until it’s abundantly clear to them that they would be better off if software patents were history.” - a point i tried to make at NXT
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“I found Redmonk Stephen O’Grady’s presentation most impressive of the day’s. His rationale for OS ISVs was that the choice of Microsoft as a platform is simple - as an OS ISV with thin margins volume is what is most crucial…” - thx, Subhash
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some thoughts from an Intel dev on the value of the observability DTrace provides
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another reason to root for the Good Guys (as if you needed more)
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“What’s everyone so afraid of?” - unquestionably (b), in my opinion; talking to vendors as we do, there’s no doubt that some of the big folks have too much sway
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what is the purpose of this? i know MSFT has no love for the GPLv3, but funding this kind of study? it’s ridiculous. MSFT might want to weigh the expected benefit versus the expected cost
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a clarification from Bill on some of the remarks to the Bankok Post; still think they should not have come up, but nonetheless a useful follow up
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insightful (as usual) commentary from Andy on Microsoft’s recent patent FUD
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very belated, but this session at MySQL’s conference was so full i couldn’t even sit down in the aisle
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“Jeff had a bunch more ideas in that vein – like not bothering with a central archive, but having users collect the packages they’re interested in from upstream sites all over the place,” - jdub and i need to chat more on this subject, methinks
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specifics on memcached, including some really amazing anecdotal evidence; Facebook’s using memcached on 3TBs of RAM? really?
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absolutely *phenomenal* patent post from Simon - absolutely outstanding; even the noted Sun critic Michael Dolan likes it
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first things first: huge congrats and good luck to Adrian (can we call him the Knight Rider now? ;), a developer that i have the utmost respect, along with his Post ex-colleagues. but in the meantime, EveryBlock is now officially on my radar
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“noted Sun critic” -> that’s a bit harsh… I haven’t had time to read the blog post yet, but thanks for pointing it out - I just saw the interview.
Mike: apologies, thought it would be in good fun given the tone of multiple entries.
What entires?
Ok, you got me!
No offense taken. I actually enjoy seeing MS stirring up renewed interest and actually spawning a constructive community discussion on what most people probably considered a boring subject. Software patents are very dangerous territory; the solutions are not simple, and of course often many are just looking out for this quarter’s #1…
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