Kurkos, would you please stop trying to comment on patent related issues? Just to not look stupid time over time over time.
First, yes, it’s backfired. Backfired at Motorola and Samsung. Apple brought anticompetitive use of monopoly issues too. EC itself started antimonopoly investigations (of Samsung’s conduct with regard of the same issues).

> Unlike Microsoft, which recently told the EC that it would grant patents on “fair and reasonable” terms
It’s not recently (have you even read this letter http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/iplicensing/ip2.aspx)? Microsoft’s OCP is a FRAND commitment (please go and check how “recent” is it), for example.

> While requiring 15$ for a 500$ (android) phone is OK, I suppose?
Whole patent portfolio is cheaper than WiFi only (then add another $25 for 3g, then add whatever you want for every small piece of non workaroundable crap that is there). Well, I must agree that it’s not OK.

Bawhaha!! The whole patent extortion scheme is backfiring badly for Microsoft: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2154405/microsoft-whinges-ec-google-motorola>

“Unlike Microsoft, which recently told the EC that it would grant patents on “fair and reasonable” terms, Motorola is being unreasonable, he said, and is demanding a royalty on a $1,000 laptop of $22.50.”

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I’m sure there are enough angry kids who’ve been banned from the Something Awful forums to warrant such a service.

Nay, ban busting. Pay me and I’ll do it ;)

Hmm, I wonder if there is an opportunity for a service here. Blog busting.

Quoting Ted on Feb 22 2012 2:27:23 -0500

I just don’t know if I can be bothered.

I would say, “Don’t.” There is no reason to get stressed over a blog on the Internet. If you want to confront him again, do so only when you feel comfortable and have spare few minutes to kill.

A few things Pogson needs to consider;

1. Dynamic IPs. What’s he going to do, block an entire major ISP?
2. Free wi-fi is bloody well everywhere these days.
3. Proxy servers
4. Disposable email addresses are not hard to come by if he implements email registration.

I just don’t know if I can be bothered. I only ever started replying to him specifically in the first place because he jumped into an exchange with another poster, trying to score cheap points by selectively quoting me.

But he can turn his site into a debate-free echo-chamber, with only oiaohm for company, if he wants to. Without any dissenting opinion, the likes of lpbear, kozmcrae and the others of their ilk will disappear of their own accord, as they’ll have no targets for their insults and snarky comments.

Quoting administrator on Feb 21 2012 20:49:42 -0500

As far as I’m concerned, banning someone for their valid remark is an admission of guilt.

It’s not as much an admission of guilt to Pogson as it is just a quick and dirty way to have the last words. The guy is simply too far deep into his zealotry to not have some moral justification to himself. Whatever you confront him with, it’s not a matter of technical or philosophical interests, but a mere obstacle in his goal to score a point for his chosen side, and he will stick to his arguments with or without you pointing out the flaws. Thus, when you debate with him at his blog, it’s not a matter of whether you will get banned, but when you’ll so, and your aim should never be about defeating him with words but influencing bystanders’ views on the issue.

As far as I’m concerned, banning someone for their valid remark is an admission of guilt. It shows a serious lack of credibility when the only way you can cope with being wrong is by ostracizing your opponent.

Quoting Ted on Feb 21 2012 18:00:23 -0500

Pogson prefixed a quote from me with;

Ted, denying reality, wrote,

And I replied;

Please stop. Do you have any idea how foolish this inane practice makes you look?

How would you react if people prefixed replies to you with “Pogson, avoiding the direct questions, ignoring requests for evidence, fudging the maths in his favour, inserting non-sequiturs, going off on tangents and skirting the issue with nonsense, wrote;”?

It seems that Pogson has banned you for daring to speak out against his holiness. You’ll be forever honored as a great hero of the Interwebs.

By the way, memory leaks? Seriously, are we still in 1995?

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Haha, well played. The guy is an ass, using his platform unfairly to bend facts.

Pogson prefixed a quote from me with;

Ted, denying reality, wrote,

And I replied;

Please stop. Do you have any idea how foolish this inane practice makes you look?

How would you react if people prefixed replies to you with “Pogson, avoiding the direct questions, ignoring requests for evidence, fudging the maths in his favour, inserting non-sequiturs, going off on tangents and skirting the issue with nonsense, wrote;”?

Any takers to try this in their next reply to him?? ;)

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Quoting DrLoser on Feb 20 2012 15:46:44 -0500

An amusing comment from the GKH blog, bashing on Android, btw:“As for me, I think I’ll look into getting a Nokia N900. It looks much more open, with the code mostly all upstream, and a much more active developer community.”Posted in December 2010. I wonder if the Greg-Man has changed his mind about Nokia since?Jeez, sometimes watching the Loons is like listening to a bunch of hysterical girls at a High-School Prom. It’s all some sort of inverted popularity contest according to rules they draw up themselves, and nothing at all to do with real life.

For me the Greg Man is one of the personally responsible for the sorry state of linux today. The stable API/ABI nonsense shows a new fascinating level of retardation.

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As for me, I think I’ll look into getting a Nokia N900. It looks much more open, with the c

The Nokia N900 was a fine machine. So was N9 and N950. But then Nokia realised that 1)If Maemo/MeeGo became a success, all those other manufacturers could use the software for free and 2) all the other manufacturers of the “MeeGo alliance” didn’t contribute a thing and expected from Nokia to do all the work, because they knew Nokia was the most dependent on MeeGo. So there was a situation where Nokia was paying the development costs, but everyone could use the software. That put Nokia in a disadvantage, because the price of their phones had software development + hardware costs in their price, while MeeGo phones from other manufacturers would have hardware costs only.

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An amusing comment from the GKH blog, bashing on Android, btw:

“As for me, I think I’ll look into getting a Nokia N900. It looks much more open, with the code mostly all upstream, and a much more active developer community.”

Posted in December 2010. I wonder if the Greg-Man has changed his mind about Nokia since?

Jeez, sometimes watching the Loons is like listening to a bunch of hysterical girls at a High-School Prom. It’s all some sort of inverted popularity contest according to rules they draw up themselves, and nothing at all to do with real life.

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Quoting Adam_King on Feb 20 2012 1:23:05 -0500

“The open source community, Forrester asserts, will simply be unable to keep up with the likes of … Google’s Android™.”

I LOL’ed.

Considering upstream can’t accept any of Google’s recent changes to the kernel, which one is it? Is Google an open source god entity that will bring Linux to every desktop? Or are they just doing what every other company does and leverage what they can with no intention of contributing?

Looks like another Adam King drive by.

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“The open source community, Forrester asserts, will simply be unable to keep up with the likes of … Google’s Android™.”

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Quoting administrator on Feb 19 2012 18:55:12 -0500

It reminds me of the Apple zealots of the 90’s. They’ve died down too, but mainly because their OS actually regained some mainstream usage. Whereas desktop linux is all but forgotten; A toy for a few college kids who are trying to up their geek cred.

Better analogy would be Amiga zealots, who’s been probably the most annoying idiots in 90s, but peacefully died off with the death of Amiga itself. Oh, I’ve forgotten, Amiga The Survivor never dies – there are still zombies like AmigaOne. Funny though, that just like Mac it’s a 100% PC – the only differentiator is some lame OS (well AmigaOne also uses CPU that was bought-and-killed by Apple).

Quoting wants2bfree on Feb 19 2012 17:17:14 -0500

The newest LH post finally went over 200 comments, 4 whole days after it was posted. More proof that M$'s forces are scattering and the illegal monopoly is going to lose this war.

Yeah, or proof that there’s so little left of the zealot army that there’s nothing to write about anymore. A few stragglers still exist, but they’re not as vocal as they used to be. It reminds me of the Apple zealots of the 90’s. They’ve died down too, but mainly because their OS actually regained some mainstream usage. Whereas desktop linux is all but forgotten; A toy for a few college kids who are trying to up their geek cred.

The newest LH post finally went over 200 comments, 4 whole days after it was posted. More proof that M$'s forces are scattering and the illegal monopoly is going to lose this war.

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Poggie Goes Mad:

“oiaohm wrote, 'An individual computer user is always going to be completely willing to buy and use a software product that meets some need, whether it is free or a license fee or subscription needs to be paid. Each buyer will weigh the benefits vs the expense and decide on things, one by one.’”

Can you spot the obvious flaw here, readers?

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