It just seems wrong for laws to be passed to prevent reverse-engineering. It's like saying "this stuff sucks, but since its patented, you can't make a better one" *shudder* I'm glad to see news like this.
I wonder if something like this could have come from another government that's unfriendly to the U.S.? Wasn't there an article on Slashdot somewhere earlier about a DoS on some U.S. site originating from the P.R.C.? Not that I want to point fingers or anything, it was just a notion I had.
Btw: as of Midnight CST, Altavista and Excite seem to be back up
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It's gotta be bad there for Roy Disney to just pack up his bags and leave.
More like, his bag was packed for him, and he was shown the door.
Here are some open source initiatives that might be worth a look:
Art of Illusion - Full 3d Modeller/Renderer/Animator suite written in Java
www.artofillusion.org
Wings3d - An excellent modeller. www.wings3d.com
Pov-ray - An excellent free raytracer (perhaps a front-end is the way to go?) www.povray.org
It just seems wrong for laws to be passed to prevent reverse-engineering. It's like saying "this stuff sucks, but since its patented, you can't make a better one" *shudder* I'm glad to see news like this.
I wonder if something like this could have come from another government that's unfriendly to the U.S.? Wasn't there an article on Slashdot somewhere earlier about a DoS on some U.S. site originating from the P.R.C.? Not that I want to point fingers or anything, it was just a notion I had.
Btw: as of Midnight CST, Altavista and Excite seem to be back up