Hi Nadav, please fix the handling of Unicode characters in the Subject: line of the messages you reply to. Currently, it replaced them with question marks. This has been an ongoing problem with your E-mail client for many years now.
Regards, Shlomi Fish On Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:09:55 +0200 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote about "???In Technology Wars, > Using the Patent as a Sword??? - New York Times Feature": > > rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple and > > Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases > > exceeded spending on research and development of new products, > > according to public filings. > > This is not entirely surprising. As an example, IBM is well-known for > its research arm, and many people assume that IBM spends a fortune on > its R&D. But a few years ago, I attended some IBM customer > conference, where an IBM executive stood up and told everyone, > proudly, that the previous year, IBM bought small companies for X > billions of dollars, which was more than it spent on its own research > arm. [SNIPPED] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ The cool thing about Vim is — you find something interesting with every typo. — Su‐Shee on Freenode’s #perl . Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il