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| Authored by: Tyro on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 02:56 PM EDT |
It doesn't really matter how he arrived at this decision. It matters that he
appears to have. I find that the rules of this discussion board forbid my
describing how I feel about someone who would make that decision, even on his
own, and without wider repercussions. When such a one masks his (malicious?)
actions under a cloak of authority... (I can accept the possibility that it is
not an intentionally malicious decision, it is as least irresponsibly and
recklessly destructive. And I'm afraid that I am finding it impossible to
consider lack of malice as plausible, only possible...like throwing 10 heads in
a row, one doubts that the coin is honest.)
The only fortunate thing about such a decision is that it will probably destroy
the country so quickly that it can't export the infection to others. And it
thoroughly convinces me that only GPL3 software is even relatively safe to
depend on.
N.B.: The exact same arguments could be applied to coding in assembler, so
there is really no escape. This would destroy the entire computer industry.
Do I think the country would survive long enough for an appeal to reach the
Supreme Court? I'm dubious. It's not like the economy is healthy at the moment
anyway. Even if it does, it's likely to be so damaged by the time that a
decision is reached that Somalia will have a larger GNP.
P.S.: I doubt that there will be an appeal. My expectation is that if he
pushes this decision, Google will win the case, leaving the precedent embedded
in case law.
Thinking further, this probably will have a subterranean effect, with it's
actions hidden from view. Most often people will just avoid actions that would
be threatened, and so no software will be developed in the US, and imports will
be carefully restricted, hemmed about by legal denyability, so that software
companies can't be bound by US law. (This has already started to happen, so
this will just increase the speed and strength of an already existing state of
affairs...and thus be invisible.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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