John Paczkowski

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QOTD: Linus Torvalds on Patent Claims

The whole, ‘We have a list and we’re not telling you,’ itself should tell you something. Don’t you think that if Microsoft actually had some really foolproof patent, they’d just tell us and go ‘nyaah, nyaah, nyaah’?

Linux founder Linus Torvalds puts Microsoft’s latest open-source patent claims in perspective.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer