I think that if Microsoft were the author of sole author of Kerberos, then that might be the case, that items 1, 2, and 3 would simply be fluff. The core issue, though, is that Microsoft has claimed copyright and trade secret privledges to an extension to an open protocol... a protocol copyrighted by MIT.
These questions put the burden on Microsoft to establish that their claims are valid, that what they have produced is in fact original and copyrightable. I cannot simply change a few words in Stephen King's latest book and then claim the whole thing as (c) HRPuffNStuff. I need to demonstrate an original and unique work.
Are there special excemptions to DMCA to press organizations? Doesn't "news for nerds stuff that matters" qualify/. as a news organization? Traditionally, courts have upheld that the first ammendment is sacred, but that the freedom of the press is the Holy of Holies, and even if DMCA was lame enough to violate the freedom of speech of individuals, the idea that it would trample over the freedom of a press organization is unimaginable.
Wyse was an early leader in the thin client market. They were thin client before it was sexy to be thin client, they were thin client when it was sexy to do network computers, and they were doing thin clients when pundits deemed the NC dead.
But Wyse has changed platforms too manytimes, and like their failed PC line, I see their venture into the Windows CE market as doomed a dismal failure. The problem seems to be that the management doesn't know how to make up their minds. Sure, today it is Windows CE, but who knows what it will be tomorrow. They have come and gone through Java and Linux and probably countless other operating systems, and they will waffle through a few more before they realize the world has passed them by.
Their marketing plan for these devices is also doomed. they plan on reselling these through banks, telcos and entertainment companies? Am I really going to buy a set top box from my lame telephone company? Through my greedy bank? Oh ho... I'm going to buy it from my video store?
Meanwhile, my friends are going to buy set top boxes from their cable companies, or from consumer electronic and gaming powerhouses like Sony. Or they are going to buy cheap home systems from discount computer sellers.
... if cphack includes illegally obtained code. You can't license code that you don't own.
Of course that is the essential issue -- is reverse engineering a violation of the original code license?
I was surprised that the authors of cphack bowed out, especially right on the tails of the ACLU. I'd love to see the ACLU spearhead a case that establishes once and for all that reverse engineering code can constitute a 'fair use' which is inherent to the right to own property, and no amount of license mubo-jumbo can make it go away.
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I think that if Microsoft were the author of sole author of Kerberos, then that might be the case, that items 1, 2, and 3 would simply be fluff. The core issue, though, is that Microsoft has claimed copyright and trade secret privledges to an extension to an open protocol ... a protocol copyrighted by MIT.
These questions put the burden on Microsoft to establish that their claims are valid, that what they have produced is in fact original and copyrightable. I cannot simply change a few words in Stephen King's latest book and then claim the whole thing as (c) HRPuffNStuff. I need to demonstrate an original and unique work.
Are there special excemptions to DMCA to press organizations? Doesn't "news for nerds stuff that matters" qualify /. as a news organization? Traditionally, courts have upheld that the first ammendment is sacred, but that the freedom of the press is the Holy of Holies, and even if DMCA was lame enough to violate the freedom of speech of individuals, the idea that it would trample over the freedom of a press organization is unimaginable.
Wyse was an early leader in the thin client market. They were thin client before it was sexy to be thin client, they were thin client when it was sexy to do network computers, and they were doing thin clients when pundits deemed the NC dead.
... I'm going to buy it from my video store?
But Wyse has changed platforms too manytimes, and like their failed PC line, I see their venture into the Windows CE market as doomed a dismal failure. The problem seems to be that the management doesn't know how to make up their minds. Sure, today it is Windows CE, but who knows what it will be tomorrow. They have come and gone through Java and Linux and probably countless other operating systems, and they will waffle through a few more before they realize the world has passed them by.
Their marketing plan for these devices is also doomed. they plan on reselling these through banks, telcos and entertainment companies? Am I really going to buy a set top box from my lame telephone company? Through my greedy bank? Oh ho
Meanwhile, my friends are going to buy set top boxes from their cable companies, or from consumer electronic and gaming powerhouses like Sony. Or they are going to buy cheap home systems from discount computer sellers.
Wyse is stupid.
... if cphack includes illegally obtained code. You can't license code that you don't own.
Of course that is the essential issue -- is reverse engineering a violation of the original code license?
I was surprised that the authors of cphack bowed out, especially right on the tails of the ACLU. I'd love to see the ACLU spearhead a case that establishes once and for all that reverse engineering code can constitute a 'fair use' which is inherent to the right to own property, and no amount of license mubo-jumbo can make it go away.