"So theoretically if you don't do anything with a piece of code I can take it under the public domain right?"
Of course.
If I were to create a privately licensed app and stopped developing for it and yanked it off the market, by all means. Because, it's abandoned.
If someone felt they could use that code for either development or entertainment purposes, more power to them. Why let a good app die?
Seems like one of the most ancient edicts of naval law allows the commandeering of any abandoned vessel and recognizes the commandering party as the rightful owner.
Seems logical enough.
Why not apply this to software?
I mean hell, if a program is no longer being marketed nor developed by it's respective corp/programmer, then by all means it should be deligated to public domain.
But, of course... that line of thinking would require an ounce of common sense...
Something on very short supply in the electronic media industry.
Is this really that big a thing?
And yes, I do agree with WIPO's stance that they created a domain name in bad faith.
As they cited, the sites owner published that he created the domain solely as a means of harassment.
Some may argue that he has a right to free speech.
Unfortunatly, I don't see blatent harassment as something that should be protected.
A better method would have been to set up a real website, create a genuine news article about it or other lengthy diatribe, set up a canonoical domain like GUINESS-BITES-MY-ASS.mydomain.com
and host a slew of anti-Guiness material to his hearts content. Because then, it would have been tied to a valid entity that served a pupose other than targeted harassment, and would fall squarely under protection as freedom of speech.
I see no need to defend the poor sod who registered that domain, nor boycott Guiness for protecting their own interests. I mean, in the real world, if you start harassing a person or legal entity, they have the right to take actions against you (ie: restraining orders, cease and desist orders, etc et al) So what they did here was no different.
"The team consists of members who have all either worked on large-scale government projects or currently hold active security clearances, including a top secret rating from the National Security Agency, a top secret rating from the Department of Defense and other ratings from the Treasury Department. Looks like the deck is just a bit stacked."
Who else is supossed to police the Email Beast?
You'd think they'd let anyone actively monitor the workings of Carnivore w/o having some sort of government background and current high level security clearance?
Use some common sense.
Like Intel is all that these days.
What about an AMD Roadmap?
They're the ones that have truly broken the 1Ghz
barrier: ...they have Ghz chips in decent supply on the market (Not just OEM dists) ...they haven't had no farkin recall.
Right now the only roadmap Intell should be following is catch-up with AMD's footsteps
First thing is... WOW... cool... *wipes drool from chin* Upon going over the documentation, I feel inundated by having to digest and regurgitate yet another scripting language....then I question, WHY open source it? Maybe I'm talking out my respective ass here, but this (and most corp open sourcing) has got to be a PR move. But, I'm not going to scorn Go for open sourcing it's search engine. They made a good move, and this definantly helps all web developers and up and coming sites (whoo hoo... lets hold a contest to see who can do their search engine first) Seriously though, the only real draw for the corps to get into open sourcing is the PR that comes from hopping on the bandwagon. I mean, it's free advertising due to the 'credits' for the original script the mod'd engine is made from. So ya, that's better than a banner ad. And as far as eating into their profits, I think not, as TEA was pulled from another product Barista and technically, this should help them with their full product sales to enterprises wishing a more thorough engine for their search portal. As far as the IDE goes (Kettle) That's NOT open source. Which really bites since it's Windows only. Hopefully, Go's working on a port to the penguin.
When I first started on the web, like everyone else, I used Netscape. I mocked M$ Explorer all the way untill IE 4 came out. But, developing interactive media for the web and doing experimental work with CSS and Java, I find that the DOM for Netscrape is so weak as to be a joke. I really think Netscape owes us and itself the courtesy to show the dignity to bow out of a market it can no longer compete in. Companies are FORCED to spend large sums of money to ensure that Netscape can render their page accuratly. Developers spend hours and days wrestling with code to get their pages to work with Netscape. I refuse to use Netscape as my personal browser and I stick to M$ Explorer. Though, I may not like M$, I have to acknowledge that they do make the supieror browser on the market. If it weren't for the fact that I have to use Netscape to test sites to make sure that client-side scripts wont crash the browser and that the pages display properly, I would have wiped the thing from my HD ages ago. I could continue to digress but, from what I've seen is that many here and elsewhere agree that Netscape is causing more harm than good by continuing to play this sharade. Unfortunatly, I don't think anything short of legal action will cause AOL to pull the plug on Netscape... and developers and corps will continue to suffer the burden of supporting their POS browser.
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"So theoretically if you don't do anything with a piece of code I can take it under the public domain right?"
Of course. If I were to create a privately licensed app and stopped developing for it and yanked it off the market, by all means. Because, it's abandoned. If someone felt they could use that code for either development or entertainment purposes, more power to them.
Why let a good app die?
Seems like one of the most ancient edicts of naval law allows the commandeering of any abandoned vessel and recognizes the commandering party as the rightful owner.
Seems logical enough. Why not apply this to software?
I mean hell, if a program is no longer being marketed nor developed by it's respective corp/programmer, then by all means it should be deligated to public domain.
But, of course... that line of thinking would require an ounce of common sense... Something on very short supply in the electronic media industry.
Is this really that big a thing? And yes, I do agree with WIPO's stance that they created a domain name in bad faith. As they cited, the sites owner published that he created the domain solely as a means of harassment. Some may argue that he has a right to free speech. Unfortunatly, I don't see blatent harassment as something that should be protected. A better method would have been to set up a real website, create a genuine news article about it or other lengthy diatribe, set up a canonoical domain like GUINESS-BITES-MY-ASS.mydomain.com and host a slew of anti-Guiness material to his hearts content. Because then, it would have been tied to a valid entity that served a pupose other than targeted harassment, and would fall squarely under protection as freedom of speech. I see no need to defend the poor sod who registered that domain, nor boycott Guiness for protecting their own interests. I mean, in the real world, if you start harassing a person or legal entity, they have the right to take actions against you (ie: restraining orders, cease and desist orders, etc et al) So what they did here was no different.
"The team consists of members who have all either worked on large-scale government projects or currently hold active security clearances, including a top secret rating from the National Security Agency, a top secret rating from the Department of Defense and other ratings from the Treasury Department. Looks like the deck is just a bit stacked." Who else is supossed to police the Email Beast? You'd think they'd let anyone actively monitor the workings of Carnivore w/o having some sort of government background and current high level security clearance? Use some common sense.
WTF?
...they have Ghz chips in decent supply on the market (Not just OEM dists)
...they haven't had no farkin recall.
Like Intel is all that these days. What about an AMD Roadmap? They're the ones that have truly broken the 1Ghz barrier:
Right now the only roadmap Intell should be following is catch-up with AMD's footsteps
First thing is... WOW... cool... *wipes drool from chin* Upon going over the documentation, I feel inundated by having to digest and regurgitate yet another scripting language ....then I question, WHY open source it? Maybe I'm talking out my respective ass here, but this (and most corp open sourcing) has got to be a PR move. But, I'm not going to scorn Go for open sourcing it's search engine. They made a good move, and this definantly helps all web developers and up and coming sites (whoo hoo... lets hold a contest to see who can do their search engine first) Seriously though, the only real draw for the corps to get into open sourcing is the PR that comes from hopping on the bandwagon. I mean, it's free advertising due to the 'credits' for the original script the mod'd engine is made from. So ya, that's better than a banner ad. And as far as eating into their profits, I think not, as TEA was pulled from another product Barista and technically, this should help them with their full product sales to enterprises wishing a more thorough engine for their search portal. As far as the IDE goes (Kettle) That's NOT open source. Which really bites since it's Windows only. Hopefully, Go's working on a port to the penguin.
When I first started on the web, like everyone else, I used Netscape. I mocked M$ Explorer all the way untill IE 4 came out. But, developing interactive media for the web and doing experimental work with CSS and Java, I find that the DOM for Netscrape is so weak as to be a joke. I really think Netscape owes us and itself the courtesy to show the dignity to bow out of a market it can no longer compete in. Companies are FORCED to spend large sums of money to ensure that Netscape can render their page accuratly. Developers spend hours and days wrestling with code to get their pages to work with Netscape. I refuse to use Netscape as my personal browser and I stick to M$ Explorer. Though, I may not like M$, I have to acknowledge that they do make the supieror browser on the market. If it weren't for the fact that I have to use Netscape to test sites to make sure that client-side scripts wont crash the browser and that the pages display properly, I would have wiped the thing from my HD ages ago. I could continue to digress but, from what I've seen is that many here and elsewhere agree that Netscape is causing more harm than good by continuing to play this sharade. Unfortunatly, I don't think anything short of legal action will cause AOL to pull the plug on Netscape... and developers and corps will continue to suffer the burden of supporting their POS browser.