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Corrections Thread
Authored by: DannyB on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:47 PM EDT
Please post corrections hear.

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Newspicks here
Authored by: DannyB on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:48 PM EDT
Please include a link to the article you are referencing.

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Authored by: DannyB on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:49 PM EDT
Please make links clickable.

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Comes documents here
Authored by: DannyB on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 03:51 PM EDT
Please post comes documents here.

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FileZilla from Mozilla? I don't think so...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 05:26 PM EDT
I've been aware of FileZilla for a long time, and I'm pretty sure it's not a
Mozilla project. (I'm also a longtime Mozilla contributor.)

https://filezilla-project.org/

There's no mention of Mozilla there.

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I don't think they realize how much software interfaces pemeate society
Authored by: rocky on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 06:21 PM EDT
An example came to my mind to drive home how a company restricting an external
interface like that would disrupt things and is so obviously wrong. Bank
electronic transfers and ATM interfaces I'm sure rely on some documented specs
for communicating, an "API" if you will. I suppose those were
probably jointly developed by a few of the large banking institutions to
designate how those transfers are to be communicated by software so they will be
recognized. If those banks that developed it said they control to rights to use
those interfaces, that is collusion among competitors (big legal no-no) to
stifle competition from entering the market. (Or if it was one company, it's
still an anti-competitive monopoly) If a credit union or small bank startup
isn't allowed to use those interfaces to do business electronically, they
basically can't exist in our culture. No one will use a bank that can't do any
electronic transfers or access ATMs.

If they disclose those instructions for communicating with them, they don't have
a right to prevent people from using that information. That's another reason
this seems so very wrong. It's being referred to under copyright, but it's
really a restriction on use.

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Amici for Oracle?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 08:22 PM EDT
Has anyone other than the usual suspects (Microsoft and Apple) filed an Amicus
brief supporting Oracle?

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A Creative Commons Approach
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 31 2013 @ 09:29 PM EDT
If Oracle obtains copyright coverage of APIs, that establishes a
walled garden for each vendor which will take b2b agreements to
enter (increased cost of business). FOSS would probably establish
a Creative Commons style approach to re-establish the balance
within the FOSS walled garden. Proprietary software vendors would
likely not want to expand the scope of general access to their
APIs because anyone could become a competitor with tighter
restrictions on the use of their own APIs.

--GregB

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They sure don't know Latin
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 02:20 AM EDT
So many bright people and none of them know Latin. It should read
"Amicorum" instead of "Amici's". And then again,
"Amici" is a plural, so even if they wanted to demonstrate their
ignorance, it should have read at least "Amicis' ".

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