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An Open Source Legal Breakthrough
jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens writes in Datamation about a major court victory for open source: 'An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux.' The case, Jacobsen v. Katzer, revolved around free software coded by Bob Jacobsen that Katzer used in a proprietary application and then patented. When Katzer started sending invoices to Jacobsen (for what was essentially Jacobsen's own work), Jacobsen took the case to court and scored a victory that — for the first time — lays down a legal foundation for the protection of open source developers. The case hasn't generated as many headlines as it should."
And the second link is the reason why.
Same as going into a morgue usually is a good test for students considering a medical career, this link is a perfect test for lawyers wanna be's.
1, wait for some guy to code something cool .c and .h files do a "s/guys name/my name/g"
2, In all
3, relase as closed source application
4, PROFIT!!
Oh, wait... It does not work anymore?
Well I hope all copying, greedy suckers will learn the lesson!
Cheers
:)
"or dunked in a vat of whale spunk."
That's what I get for slacking off on /. when I'm supposed to be working. Thanks :(
And how many should it be generating?
Face it- the US president manufactured a complete financial meltdown and two wars which will most likely last over ten years. There's also another presidential election, which may be the first federal election in over ten years which hasn't been rigged.
You forgot to mention the part where Bush is a servant of the Anunnaki sent to keep the populace in control. How can you have a good conspiracy theory without EVIL ALIEN SERPENT PEOPLE ?
"or dunked in a vat of whale spunk."
That's what I get for slacking off on /. when I'm supposed to be working. Thanks :(
No *that's* what you get for choosing to work at Whale Spunk Wholesalers, Inc.
Hey at least he most likely works in the IT department there, not in Production "shudder"...
"The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
According to the best research I can find in as much as I dared:
That's a lot of Shamu Shucking! Not impossible, mind you, but challenging. You'll need a good team with strong muscles, good aim, and earplugs so they aren't driven mad by the cacophony of "ooOOOo" caused by the whalegasms. You'll also need to ensure that the whales are either sufficiently into this, or you have a good supply of whale porn on hand.
And when you're done, if you haven't found some way to make enough money off this so you'll never have to work again, then you aren't trying hard enough.
UTF-8: There and Back Again
You think Production is bad, get a job on their QA team...
Obvious exits are NORTH, SOUTH, and DENNIS.
Mike Rowe!
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Well, that's it. You have won not only the thread, sir, but the entire Internet. Good try, everyone else. Let's clean up here and all go back to using fax machines. Would the last person to log off please shut down the servers and get the lights? Thanks.