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Russ Nelson writes "The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its refusal to review the 5th
Circuit's en banc decision that there can be no copyright of
privately authored laws offered to U.S. governmental bodies for adoption. The
model law itself may be copyrighted, but once it's adopted, the law
must be open source. The entire case is laid out on Peter Veeck's
page." Slashdot touched on this before, but never really covered this dispute in depth. Here's a nice legal summary of the case.
FP???
but I play one on TV.
my first fp!
I'm using the latest milestone of Firebird, and the entire article rendered about an inch wide, with several inches of whitespace on the sides. Anyone else get it this way?
http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/veeck.htm
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It sure sounds like you.
It means I can fuck your mom up her ass LEGALLY
I am the project mangager for Hick software LLC. After the terrible legal ordeal my company has been rangled through, I really think the GPL should be outlawed as it forces companies to jepordize their trade secrets and makes their programmers lawyer bait. Please read my experiance and maybe you will change your mind about Opensource.
First, there was a plan: how to bring together the different development groups at work? My boss said there was a sort of tension he thought could be eased by some social interaction. Not easy. Almost all of the different development groups despised each other, each thinking its "art" was more important and eloquent than the others'.
There was the kernel extension developer group, coding mostly in C and some PowerPC and x86 assembler. They worked on making our PCI board work with Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, QNX, and Solaris. They worked "special hours," coming in at one and staying late, supposedly, until seven or eight at night. They enjoyed t-girl cola and had a penchant for ThinkGeek t-shirts and cracking jokes about Win32 API calls and the dreaded sad mac.
We had XML developers too. They worked on our website, documentation formatting, and simple apps to configure the driver software. They used HTML, XSL, JavaScript, and a bit of Java. They typically dressed casually, drank coffee and tea, and liked to work straight from the spec: no "Learn XSL in 30 Days" books were to be found in their cubicle farm.
Then we had the guys who wrote full-out UNIX apps. These guys and the products they wrote had been acquired from another company, and were the source of most of the tension: they'd never really been integrated into our group except that they were physically present with the rest of us. They all had beards or mullets or long, unwashed hair. Many wore suspenders or the afore-mentioned ThinkGeek clothes; some even had Penguin tatooes or small C app code tattooed on them. Their cubicle farm was known for the bleating laughter that exploded when one of them found a "silly" bug on someone else's code, and for the rotten, fetid stench that could only be compared to three-day-old shit reeking from inside a rotting corpse's abdominal cavity.
So, in order to get the guys to "know each other" my boss had asked me to organize a during-hours, alcohol-friendly party. My ideas ranged from a keg or two to live entertainment, AKA strippers. But as to what to get them to actually talk to each other in a human manner I had no clue. So I let it go til the last minute and decided to let my inherent creativity mull it over in the back of my head.
When the day of the party had arrived, the catering company brought in a few trays of lunch meat, chicken, pizza, and side dishes, I had picked up the kegs (all four) from the local brewery, and the big-screen TV and DVD were set up ready to blast the Matrix into the eyes and ears of my co-workers. The eagerness in the the air was encouraging and I thought that loosening up and smiles going on even now were a good sign. I even saw some of the guys who'd known each other previously begin to bunch up, bringing along the co-workers they knew from everyday work.
The first thing everyone did was hit the food line, loading up their plates and grabbing a cup for beer to wash it down with. A few approached me and thanked me for the food; it seems appeasing the belly really did tame the beast. After a few minutes of silence and eating and a few second and third courses, they guys were ready to sit down and be entertained. After asking if anyone needed anything else before the movie started, the lights went out and the Matrix began playing. I heard a few enthusiastic comments and jokes being told.
About half-way through the movie I noticed a lot of the guys, especially from the UNIX app group, were getting up and presumably going to the restroom. No suprise, as the second keg was history by now and the third was probably half-way gone. I also noticed some of the guys bumping into
Please explain to me what this means, in simple language.
The motion of respondent for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is granted. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Soe these forma pauperis is better than the penis bird? Does it scratch, I understand the need for a writ of certiorari, but please, dont make it such a wide writ.
Props my troll good job exposing the slashdot fags for what they are: troll-censoring bastards!
What I want to know is why someone would want to copyright a law.
I can't see any method of generating income or royalty unless say the laws had to be licensed per year or something.
Also, if a copyright was held on a law, would this allow the copyright holders to upgrade the law without the knowledge of the client? (DMCA v1.0 has been upgraded to DMCA v1.1, all cd's must be bought again to ensure validity)
Just wondering...
you're all faggots, and i'm tired, and i just posted this while i was tired. eat goatse!
I do use the tag sometimes when I'm dashing off a quick/temporary hand-coded HTML fragment, especially with relative size like size="+1" which is not easily indicated with CSS.
To give you an idea: Replace all instances of <font size="+1">...</font> with <big>...</big>, which is semantically equivalent. (Likewise, there's a <small>...</small> inline element as well.) Or in CSS, use <span style="font-size:120%">...</span>. It may appear longer at first, but once it's CSS, you can bind it to a class.
Will I retire or break 10K?