Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 05:12 PM EDT |
Python Software Foundation wins a battle for the Python
name...
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I askedTim Poultney, CEO of POBox Hosting, if there was any
decisive factor in the change of heart. "There were many
different factors that were taken into consideration,
including the community to whom we would like to extend our
thanks for the many supportive emails we are now receiving,"
he said
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Yeah I would say the Vocal Emails he received explaining how
no one would do business with him were a factor.
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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 06:35 PM EDT |
Regarding "New European Commission Report Finds That ‘Piracy’ Doesn’t Hurt,
And In Fact Helps, Music Sales" it's amazing what free advertising can do for
sales. That's the message Guerrilla marketers have preached for years. You
sample with a low-quality mp3 on a laptop's speakers, if you like the3 song you
then pop for much higher quality sound on purchased CD (or mpeg video and
DVD).
Now, if we just didn't have to deal with DRM!
joef. May be back on my
own system soon.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 08:52 PM EDT |
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002527.html
The link to
their previous story shows 77% of their readers
thought he deserved NO jail
time.
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Authored by: 351-4V on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 09:58 PM EDT |
Weeve may be a shining example of some of society's worst and richly deserve the
41 months of prison time for other things he has done in his lifetime.
Accordingly, some may say "Karma, and all that".
But that is not how our
justice system is supposed to work.
In this case, AT&T deliberately
chose to publish the email addresses of customers that had registered iPhones.
AT&T deliberately chose to leave those email address totally unsecured. One
can only assume that they intended for the information to be accessed by the
public. That is not a totally unimaginable circumstance.
Is your email
address a "private" matter? I don't think so. You give it out freely to
others. Sometimes it gets used by people who want to sell you little blue pills
and such. How is your email address so different from your street address? Or
is your street address supposed to be a private secret too?
Go to Google
Earth, put in your street address, drop into Street View. Lo, and behold. Not
only is there a picture of your home but your street address as well. Publicly
available to anyone who might chose to use it, maybe even for nefarious
reasons.
Anyone and I mean anyone, who for one moment thinks justice was
served in this case really needs to take some time to reflect upon society and
our laws.
Our laws and justice system are not designed to work for only
the good people stout of heart. They are designed to work for us all. We can't
just suspend justice because the defendant is Weeve or Jamie Thomas-Rassert and
we think they maybe did something somewhere sometime that deserves the sentence
anyway. That's just not how it is supposed to work.
Oh and P.S. Anyone
who refers to any Gawker owned site as a "Media Outlet" gets a gentle slap up
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 03:37 AM EDT |
blogs.technet.com
It's all very
well for the US to have a law on its books dictating how US firms should behave
in foreign markets. They should in
the first instance behave in accordance with
local laws and customs. In the absence of local law or custom some guidance from
the US may be appropriate. What is a firm to do in a nation that has a three
thousand year tradition of doing business with red
envelopes? When that firm
has shown by past behaviour it is not averse to working in such an environment?
I have little
confidence the proud words of the incoming Chinese regime will do
much to change behaviour. Recent reports of provincial
level cadres read like
the epics of the Song dynasty. Microsoft can't change that. It looks like a lose
- lose situation.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 07:53 AM EDT |
Another anti-Google lobbying body
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 05:09 PM EDT |
Wall Street Journal
DRM this time, and the plaintiff is 99%
owned by
Sony-Phillips. They seem to be quietly picking off their
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Authored by: amster69 on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 06:50 PM EDT |
Oh dear, that is going to cause a lot of burst blood vessels! :-)
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