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Not to nit-pic, but it's a Trademark cancellation - not a patent. The confusion probably came from the fact it's before the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Very serious "whataboitism" here. People can care about more than one thing. Different people in societies can care and want to work on different things.

I know it's not actually relevant. But what a horrible website to read. The grey text is soooo lacking contrast on the white.

State your conclusion. Not doing so forces us to guess what you mean and is just poor communication. You're forcing me (and everyone that reads this comment) to guess what you mean…

I think even if it wasn't trademarked, they'd likely look into Passing Off (or whatever equivalent laws are present in the country they would decide to proceed with legal action is…

Copyright only protects against actual copying. It's quite a limited right in comparison to patents. A patent can prevent others from implementing/selling/making/importing/exploiti…

I think is more about the political statement of leaving GitHub rather than the practicalities of code management.

I work in the tech transfer office for a medium sized university (a non practicing entity! shock horror ) and patents are a very key tool for us. Many players we license technology…

Oddly enough that's what they're aiming to claim a monopoly over. Here's[1] a patent they have filed towards the system. Claims 1-18 and 20 are focused on the training of the neura…

In English we do have the word "liberty" for freedom.

Oh gosh those are the worst. And they never look good on your phone, so you have to get your laptop out (or tablet if you have one). If it's not a pointless blog/article header, th…

QubesOS has a really nice solution for opening untrusted PDFs: https://micahflee.com/2016/07/how-qubes-makes-handling-pdfs-...

Pelican is great for blogs. I don't know that I'd suggest it for a "Knowledgebase".

Looks pretty handy! How do you interface with the KeePass database? Is there a library? with Perl bindings?

Log/lin depends on your target market a lot I think. I don't know, but I imagine, audio engineers and the like would be expecting a logarithmic scale for their volume knobs. I make…

But #fefefe isn't black or white? I presume the commenter specifically didn't say greyscale. EDIT- checked the source: It looks like imagemagick's 'threshold' [0] command is being …

>That's just like, your opinion, man There are other examples of shows that do fine without strong plots. One example from the top of my head is "The Chinese Restaurant" episode in…

Any method of deleting bins?

It could be a typo. "no dice" is an idiom in English for an "unfavorable result". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_dice

With respect to Catholicism, I was getting at the fig leafs that were applied to classic (Roman and Greek) sculptures and paintings that depicted nudity and the general sentiment b…

I'm amazed how raunchy and explicit it all is. I guess you can blame Christianity (maybe Catholicism in particular?) and Victorian propriety for pulling it back the other direction…

I know, I was just replying to the parent's comment and highlighting that suing (AFAIK) is the only way to enforce patent rights. Apart from maybe threatening to sue, but same-diff…

Which part are you commenting on? Is it the use of the word "legitimate"? Because suing someone for patent infringement is a "legitimate" course of action, i.e. it's a lawful thing…