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It's not oracle specificaly it's that if you are say a structural ironworker during the day and make bronze sculptures as a hobby then a judge will understand they are different. B…

So the MPEG-LA isn't just a cartel of large electronics and software companies getting together to lock any upstarts (like Google) out of the market and protect their margins?

So if one of those patents also invalidates H264 they will presumably quickly invite the submitter to join the party? It would be ironic if news of the patent leaked to Google who …

Google even prevented one prominent C# expert from renewing his microsoft MVP once he went to work for them - and this was in europe where workers generally have some protection

Remember that you aren't trying to convince a bunch of HN readers - you are trying to convince a judge (who thinks computers are magic boxes) If your day job is Oracle DBA and your…

How is OpenSolaris doing now that Sun has gone?

Show me a Ruby, C# etc desktop app that took more than a week. Word, Excel, Autocad - fancy writing something like that in a toy language?

With Wp7 they are the preferred Wp7 platform. So every business that must buy Microsoft - because it's Microsoft - will now buy Nokia phones. With Android they would be competing t…

Might be if he has a bunch of MSFT options - particularly if those options were tied to the performance of the Wp7 platform.

I forgot - is this the year of the Linux desktop?

Learning Java is easy - porting 20years of libraries from C/C++ to Java is trickier. We only just got done porting them all from Fortran!

And for the C++ community - not on mobiles. What gui framework can we now use - MFC and Gnome?

Doesn't matter - Nokia will cancel Qt in the next round of budgets. The real question is how screwed are C++ developers in general? MSFT's offering is switch to managed C++/C++ CLR…