protection racket
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| tuxchick May 19, 2012 11:45 AM EDT |
What a joke. |
| tuxchick May 20, 2012 12:57 PM EDT |
testing! |
| numbers May 20, 2012 5:11 PM EDT |
??
From the newswire, this shows 4 posts but I only see tc's 2.
I am guessing that is what her second post is about. Perhaps the other posts were banned too? |
| montezuma May 20, 2012 5:33 PM EDT |
About 3 of my posts disappeared into thin air. |
| BernardSwiss May 20, 2012 5:51 PM EDT |
The front page currently says 6 posts, the story page says 3 replies (4 posts) -- I was assuming that some deleted spam was getting counted. |
| Fettoosh May 20, 2012 5:56 PM EDT |
Quoting: testing! Two of my comments didn't make it either. I don't think they were banned or lost, they were simply not saved in DB due to Lxer being in transition and DB was set in read-only mode. |
| DrGeoffrey May 20, 2012 6:07 PM EDT |
Led Zepplin? Three Dog Night? ??? |
| bob May 20, 2012 9:41 PM EDT |
Fettoosh, you are exactly correct. LXer moved over the weekend to a new data center and to new servers. Some forum posts were not correctly handled during the transition. If your post was lost this weekend you can just resubmit it. I hope everyone enjoys the new and snappier site. |
| Bob_Robertson May 21, 2012 9:19 AM EDT |
"What a joke." I, for one, am not laughing. Protection racket indeed, and very much in character. The consumer loses again. |
| jdixon May 21, 2012 10:31 AM EDT |
> I, for one, am not laughing. The only one laughing is Microsoft. :( |
| Fettoosh May 21, 2012 11:29 AM EDT |
Quoting:The only one laughing is Microsoft. :( They won't be laughing for long. Similar to their case against Barnes & Nobel, but the difference here won't be an agreement to obscure MS patents failure. Quoting: Recent Update |
| caitlyn May 21, 2012 12:00 PM EDT |
Failure? It only takes one patent being upheld for them to collect large sums of money. I wouldn't call that a failure. I also wouldn't count on a "Presidential review" during an election year. (Generic statement, not a commentary on any one President or party.) I just hope there is a reasonable appeals process available which can produce better results. |
| Fettoosh May 21, 2012 1:51 PM EDT |
Quoting:Failure? yes failure, having 8 out of 9 patents thrown out and the last one being reviewed to either invalidated or replace any infringement accounts as failure. Not being able to collect coercively, or forcing Motorola to back down and pay like all others, and not having a contract yet to cover up all that is a big failure. I doubt Google is going to accept any middle ground with MS. |
| Bob_Robertson May 21, 2012 3:50 PM EDT |
"Clash of the Titans" |
| Fettoosh May 21, 2012 3:59 PM EDT |
Quoting:"Clash of the Titans" Which is really needed to stop so far an unchallenged patent bully. |
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