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Did you try the search on both Bing and Google? Looked very different for Bing and Google. Also, that accusation was purely a PR play by Google that IMO Bing refuted convincingly: …

Not a lawyer and haven't read that many rulings, but this one looked pretty normal and not that "sarcasm-oozing" to me. These decisions often come with elaborate reasoning behind t…

While Bing was poor for tech related searches in the earlier days, I find it's no longer true. Are you sure it’s 0 results on Bing? I get a bunch of relevant-looking results, and t…

Also, many open source proponents claim that open source software is more secure because the “many eyes” theory will lead to bugs and vulnerabilities being discovered sooner. This …

> Alice Corp.'s patent claimed a form of escrowing that was well known. Somebody told me that it was not really well known when the patent was filed. Apparently keeping shadow acco…

I read the claims of that patent, and they are all hardware claims. As in, the claims are literally in terms of registers in a CPU. I would imagine in an emulator would have data s…

> "DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run". Likely apocryphal: http://www.proudlyserving.com/archives/2005/08/dos_aint_done...

The so-called study that came up with that "30 billion" number has been thoroughly debunked. Of course, the debunking of these things gets zero media coverage, because they get no …

The Wright patent holding back the US airplane industry is a myth, as demonstrated by industrial data from the period: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2355673 In…

Yes there are many, you just haven't seen any. Your perception is probably biased because you only get exposed to examples of bad patents cherry-picked by online media sources to d…

When you can flip the bits required to operate a computer with pure abstract mathematics, we'll talk.

They do this everytime. Pretty much any EFF post that makes it to the top of HN, I see a comment pointing out how the post is flawed and clickbaity.

I believe ewatt (edit: Sorry not ewatt, ekidd, the GP) referenced that same book. Here's my take on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13930823

While I agree with your overall sentiment, the Levine book is not a good reference. Here's a comment I'd posted about the book in the past: I would be wary of taking that book at i…