Don’t think iTunes for Windows follows any of the guidelines but it still feels like the most usable app on my Windows box.
Don’t think iTunes for Windows follows any of the guidelines but it still feels like the most usable app on my Windows box.
Tim Bray’s ongoing · Software Patents from the Inside gives a pretty good view, but the conclusion is the best part.
A cynic would say it’s a self-perpetuating system whose costs greatly outweigh its benefits, and that we’re hopelessly stuck in it. But then, I’m a cynic.
Tim Bray’s ongoing · Software Patents from the Inside gives a pretty good view, but the conclusion is the best part.
A cynic would say it’s a self-perpetuating system whose costs greatly outweigh its benefits, and that we’re hopelessly stuck in it. But then, I’m a cynic.
Cringely rants on state of tech companies and real ethics in the buisness world. He closes with a sad comment,
My readers, who are the best and the brightest, are many of them still debating in their minds whether software can even be patented. Whether it can be patented or not, in the U.S., it IS patented, and expecting that some contrary decision will be shortly made and the planets rearranged in space is just folly. This is the difference between cynicism and realism.
Too true, it is the reality that we have to deal with.
Cringely rants on state of tech companies and real ethics in the buisness world. He closes with a sad comment,
My readers, who are the best and the brightest, are many of them still debating in their minds whether software can even be patented. Whether it can be patented or not, in the U.S., it IS patented, and expecting that some contrary decision will be shortly made and the planets rearranged in space is just folly. This is the difference between cynicism and realism.
Too true, it is the reality that we have to deal with.