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| Authored by: hans on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 11:07 AM EDT |
| Apropos "The Rapture of the Nerds": If you happen to go to Charlie's web blog,
be sure to take a look at his es
say on the costs of publishing a book. Its very enlightening.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 12:38 PM EDT |
Regarding the Standard Digital News
Yes,
FOSS is (generally) copyrighted, but the big news is that Microsoft is liable
for losses due to cracking. Those endless EULAs have always disclaimed any
liability of any kind beyond replacing defective media.
"Just like
other players in the copyrighted software, we are accountable when our software
is hacked..."
Would someone please post the new Microsoft, Adobe,
Oracle, etc. EULAs that show this liability? --DonW[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 01:40 PM EDT |
I thought there were laws against making knowingly false
PR/Advert statements and claims.
If not, there should be.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 02:19 PM EDT |
Can someone with a better legal mind comment on this. It seems like these
companies would want Kodak to fail and have been granted permission to make
Kodak's case for it. I really do not understand.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 02:47 PM EDT |
| Article in
LWN.net:
Personalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications have filed
a lawsuit against Rackspace, alleging that Rackspace's hosting of GitHub
infringes upon a long list of software patents. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 08:13 PM EDT |
Very interesting talk by Neelie Kroes. She speaks as if
ACTA never happened.
How strange to hear someone talking
about "copyright reform", as if it was
something we can do
ourselves, through our elected representatives, without
copyright policies being dictated top-down fashion by the
copyright
organizations such as the MPAA and RIAA. It would
be nice to believe that
possible, but surely the copyright
organizations know best, wouldn't you
think? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, September 18 2012 @ 08:17 PM EDT |
| Maybe the contractor that distorted their field should be identified. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 11:51 AM EDT |
| From the Korean Times
Apple asks
Samsung to pay $3 bil. in damages
Here's the link in case my HTML
attempt doesn't work (first time
posting)
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/09/133_120358.html [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 12:06 PM EDT |
Sounds like backtracking and maybe renaming some products in reaction to the
outrage :p.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: YurtGuppy on Wednesday, September 19 2012 @ 04:22 PM EDT |
Scene from my memory. About 1995.
Des Moines.
I'm in a server room with a whole lot of dial-in modem equipment. Folks from
DICE. They are asking me if I think this Internet thing is going to stay or is
it just a fad.
I told them it's the real deal.
And the rest is history.
---
a small fish in an even smaller pond[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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