Since I'm Norwegian, I'll give a brief description of the courts andf practices.
DISCLAMER: I'm an engineer damn it, not a lawyer!
In the lower court, that aquitted Jon, there is no jury. In civil, and criminal cases with a maximum prison sentence of six years, as this was, there is only one judge.
The judges writes a written argument, the judgement, where the judge argues the evidence, the law, and come to a conclusion (the judgement).
However, the court may appount co-judges when there are complex issues involved. The co-judges are not from the legal profession, but from the profession the case deal with. In this case there were two co-judges, one engineer, and a university lecturere.
Since there is a legal argument, the argument can be argued, which is be definition an appeal.
I'm not sure on the practices on appeals, but it seem that appeals are pretty automatic.
In the second court, there is a jury that decides guilty/not guilty, but I belive that is only in th e case if there is a maximum sentence of 6 years. Else there is a panel of three judges.
The jury, with is 10, not 12 peers, do not have to be unanimous, a majority of 6 is sufficient.
Jury judgements are just yes/no as in the US, and the supreme court don't overrule jurys on the ground that they don't know the jurys reasoning.
In Jon's case there seem to be a panel of 3 with whatever co-judges they assign.
It should be noted that Norway, along with many many other countires do not hace the brittish/US consept of common law. Under common law, court rulings become law, and if there is an earlier ruling in a identical/similar case, a the court must rule the same. Thats why US lawyers study past cases to the extreme, and quotes them al the time.
Under norwegian law, if there is an identical case, the court may rule whatever way it desides. THe lawyers may argue prior rulings, but they are just arguments, not law as in the US.
You place all your propriary code in a library that don't access anny kernel functions or structs (read symbols) directly.
Then you write a GPL "layer" that maps all kernel stuff to your own interface that your lib uses, and calls functions in your lib.
This way you have a GPL module that just happen to need a propriary library to compile.
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At CeBit a German company, 4D vision http://www.4d-vision.de demonstrated two 3D screens, a 15" and a 50". This was by far the most impressive techology I saw at CeBit.
This is fully 3D screens, you see objects from another angle as you move you head in relation to the screen.
According to the sals rep there the screen needs 8 seperate 2D frames, i.e. 8 seperate channels.
The only snag about them was that on certian angles a verical sector probably 1/8 of the screen width tended to go out of fokus and become difuse. When I asked about if it was a prototype problem, they said "no, it's the laws of physics."
They had seqence from a Doomish style game, reprocessed into a 3D sequence, but it was really cool, the gaming industry is going to eat it alive.
The price quite on the 15" screens I got awas US$ 5000,-.
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Since I'm Norwegian, I'll give a brief description of the courts andf practices.
DISCLAMER: I'm an engineer damn it, not a lawyer!
In the lower court, that aquitted Jon, there is no jury. In civil, and criminal cases with a maximum prison sentence of six years, as this was, there is only one judge.
The judges writes a written argument, the judgement, where the judge argues the evidence, the law, and come to a conclusion (the judgement).
However, the court may appount co-judges when there are complex issues involved. The co-judges are not from the legal profession, but from the profession the case deal with. In this case there were two co-judges, one engineer, and a university lecturere.
Since there is a legal argument, the argument can be argued, which is be definition an appeal.
I'm not sure on the practices on appeals, but it seem that appeals are pretty automatic.
In the second court, there is a jury that decides guilty/not guilty, but I belive that is only in th e case if there is a maximum sentence of 6 years. Else there is a panel of three judges.
The jury, with is 10, not 12 peers, do not have to be unanimous, a majority of 6 is sufficient.
Jury judgements are just yes/no as in the US, and the supreme court don't overrule jurys on the ground that they don't know the jurys reasoning.
In Jon's case there seem to be a panel of 3 with whatever co-judges they assign.
It should be noted that Norway, along with many many other countires do not hace the brittish/US consept of common law. Under common law, court rulings become law, and if there is an earlier ruling in a identical/similar case, a the court must rule the same. Thats why US lawyers study past cases to the extreme, and quotes them al the time.
Under norwegian law, if there is an identical case, the court may rule whatever way it desides. THe lawyers may argue prior rulings, but they are just arguments, not law as in the US.
Check this with your lawyer:
You place all your propriary code in a library that don't access anny kernel functions or structs (read symbols) directly.
Then you write a GPL "layer" that maps all kernel stuff to your own interface that your lib uses, and calls functions in your lib.
This way you have a GPL module that just happen to need a propriary library to compile.
This is fully 3D screens, you see objects from another angle as you move you head in relation to the screen.
According to the sals rep there the screen needs 8 seperate 2D frames, i.e. 8 seperate channels.
The only snag about them was that on certian angles a verical sector probably 1/8 of the screen width tended to go out of fokus and become difuse. When I asked about if it was a prototype problem, they said "no, it's the laws of physics."
They had seqence from a Doomish style game, reprocessed into a 3D sequence, but it was really cool, the gaming industry is going to eat it alive.
The price quite on the 15" screens I got awas US$ 5000,-.