Thanks a lot. You realize the surest way to talk to the US out of anything is to point out that all the reasonable people are doing it. Thanks to you the court will probably issue a decision finding that "holing up in a bunker with my guns, beer and Ann Coulter poster" is now a patentable business method.
There are two points that I'm curious about here:
1. Does the new, expanded definition of "trade secret" and "conversion of secrets" affect the long-standing practice of reverse engineering? Is there much legal precendent built up yet to show what the limits of the definition of a trade secret are?
2. How does the Department of Justice go about pursuing a citizen of another country who is perceived to have violated this act? I'm not sure if this is the act that the author of DeCSS is being prosecuted under, but I've always wanted to know more about how the MPAA or the Justice Department succeeded in getting Norwegian authorities to arrest him, and how prosecution is being carried out.
I do agree that the article was very light on the actual details of either how exactly this will advance neuroscience, or how, specifically, Linux is being used for things like high-end graphics, which would be interesting to hear about. Actually, the whole article came off as a kind of a nice-but-fluffy OpenSource equivalent of a marketing spiel.
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Thanks a lot. You realize the surest way to talk to the US out of anything is to point out that all the reasonable people are doing it. Thanks to you the court will probably issue a decision finding that "holing up in a bunker with my guns, beer and Ann Coulter poster" is now a patentable business method.
It's one of my favorite fairy tales - try this site for a good look.
There are two points that I'm curious about here: 1. Does the new, expanded definition of "trade secret" and "conversion of secrets" affect the long-standing practice of reverse engineering? Is there much legal precendent built up yet to show what the limits of the definition of a trade secret are? 2. How does the Department of Justice go about pursuing a citizen of another country who is perceived to have violated this act? I'm not sure if this is the act that the author of DeCSS is being prosecuted under, but I've always wanted to know more about how the MPAA or the Justice Department succeeded in getting Norwegian authorities to arrest him, and how prosecution is being carried out.
Thanks. That was one of the most useful responses I've ever seen on Slashdot.
I do agree that the article was very light on the actual details of either how exactly this will advance neuroscience, or how, specifically, Linux is being used for things like high-end graphics, which would be interesting to hear about. Actually, the whole article came off as a kind of a nice-but-fluffy OpenSource equivalent of a marketing spiel.