You're getting your facts wrong. Sun *approved* of Google's efforts, publicly and officially, in the forum of their CEO's blog.
Search (e.g., Groklaw) for Jonathan Schwartz's blog from November 5, 2007:
"I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform, Android, Congratulations!"
And it continues in that vein, referring to Android as a Java-based platform.
This is after much discussion between the companies. The context matters. Google weren't being jerks.
Read up on the Oracle's lawsuit at groklaw for more factual background and generally reasoned commentary on the Oracle suit.
IANAL, either, but I did read the whole law and there is no broad encryption mandate as the SQL Mag author claimed.
The encryption-related sections of the law that I can find (17.04 (3) & (5)) actually mandate:
“(3) Encryption of all transmitted records and files containing personal information that will travel across public networks, and encryption of all data containing personal information to be transmitted wirelessly.”
“(5) Encryption of all personal information stored on laptops or other portable devices;”.
In other words, if you send data over public networks, or wirelessly, or store it on laptops, you should encrypt it. Excuse me for not getting excited about this.
Actually, of course, assembly language would have the same problem, but it would be just as relatively unlikely to show up, unless your code set the direction flag.
Note that the kernel problem actually will affect any program, pre-gcc-4.3.0 or other compilers: there is a very small but finite probability that an interrupt will occur after setting the direction flag and before executing the memory copy or scan. And (with this bug) there's a non-zero probability that the interrupt handler will leave the direction flag in a different state.
It seems like an extremely unlikely event, but one that's probably caused some number of unexplained (and irreproducible) glitches over the past several years.
You're driving in your new gcc-4.3.0-built car, when you come to a traffic light that's red. When it changes to green, your car may have silently slipped into reverse, but you won't know until you press the gas pedal.
For standard transmissions: you car was written in assembly language, so no problem here.
What!? Pretending the other side has much more effective hardware, ala the Soviet Union's illusory missile gap(s)?
Don't you see that that would mean that Navy/DoD staff would have to go to Congress and ask for $billions more to upgrade the Navy hardware, and they would hardly have a chance to see that project underway before they'd be retiring to positions at defense contractor. Who would go for that?
So the Congressional Democrats are distancing themselves from the majority and certainly from their party members. Probably partly because they get saturated with "info" from all the boot-licking media and consultants based in Washington and NY.
Of course many people try to characterize impeachment as a fringe movement... because that's the only rhetorical angle left: per the Constitution or the will of the people, impeachment of Cheney is quite reasonable. Particularly considering the damage done to the country.
Hopefully we'll see criminal proceedings at some point. There's a lot of personal responsibility that still needs to be apportioned.
Perhaps because being cynical and smug about every evil action one encounters doesn't actually seem to make anyone any better off? Except the evildoers, of course.
Actually, yeah. I think he did a credible job (given what he had to work with).
It always seemed to me that people saw in him themselves as teenagers, which was the true cause for the extreme reactions (i.e., it was really self-loathing).
Of course, the character could have been made more interesting and less like one of the Boy Scouts from a David Brin novel, but that wasn't the actor's fault.
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Agreed. All the long, convoluted code I've seen in C++ (several companies over two decades) has been from the worst programmers. I have no idea where the author (apparently) got that idea, assuming it's not a misstatement from the reviewer.
Not an answer to your question, but a response to the responses:
I found it a little funny (well, at 1:50am) that the problems others attribute to OO misinterpreting Word docs are problems I've seen recently, using exactly one installation of Word (2003) on the same machine.
Of course I tried "reveal codes": nothing obvious. I tried exporting to RTF and reimporting (massive file got much much bigger). Ended up cutting and pasting from Word to Notepad (to remove all formatting) and again back to a new Word doc. Problem solved!:-/
Hardly the first time I've had MS documents just become unusable. So I think having public specs and multiple implementations would actually improve MS Office.
Hell, just cleaning the specs up enough to publish would probably pay for itself (from MS' perspective: fewer bugs in MS Office).
Uhhm, no. I'm not a lawyer, but: a patent gives you the right to prevent other people from doing something, and it essentially doesn't matter what form they do it in. And the patent is public information, freely available from the USPTO.
You might be thinking of trade secrets, which do lose their power when they are disclosed.
They'd prove patent infringement by comparing what the patent describes with what the supposed infringer does.
And of course this doesn't even touch on the ludicrous basis of software patents in the U.S. today.
This "reputable attorney" concept... how does it relate to SCO/Caldera?
Ahh... maybe you're thinking they're actually trying to win in court, as opposed to simply spreading FUD for as long as possible while bleeding the company/investors dry? I suppose anything's possible...
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With respect to your last one, check out the other reviews by "Guadalupe"
Several made me laugh. I think it's an art form.
Or "Too big to jail."
ABC News from March 2013.
You're getting your facts wrong. Sun *approved* of Google's efforts, publicly and officially, in the forum of their CEO's blog.
Search (e.g., Groklaw) for Jonathan Schwartz's blog from November 5, 2007:
And it continues in that vein, referring to Android as a Java-based platform.
This is after much discussion between the companies. The context matters. Google weren't being jerks.
Read up on the Oracle's lawsuit at groklaw for more factual background and generally reasoned commentary on the Oracle suit.
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Ask the author of the article where he got that notion from.
That phrase does not appear in the law nor in Massachusetts FAQ.
Nor does anything like it, except in reference to
eihab seems to have it right.
IANAL, either, but I did read the whole law and there is no broad encryption mandate as the SQL Mag author claimed.
The encryption-related sections of the law that I can find (17.04 (3) & (5)) actually mandate:
In other words, if you send data over public networks, or wirelessly, or store it on laptops, you should encrypt it. Excuse me for not getting excited about this.
Law: 201 CMR 17.00 reg
FAQ: 201 CMR 17 faqs
The whole thing seems pretty sensible overall.
So... if you believe you have an explosive or chemical weapon or other noxious item ... why would you open up the containers and smell them?
I'll bet you had textbooks and/or access to a library for those non-computer-related courses. Maybe even some films.
How would you compare the learning productivity for such topics in situations lacking such materials?
You have just described genetic algorithms on a global yet practical scale.
And at the same time a way to massively fund AI research.
You will go down in history along with Miles Dyson and Cyberdyne Systems.
Actually, of course, assembly language would have the same problem, but it would be just as relatively unlikely to show up, unless your code set the direction flag.
Note that the kernel problem actually will affect any program, pre-gcc-4.3.0 or other compilers: there is a very small but finite probability that an interrupt will occur after setting the direction flag and before executing the memory copy or scan. And (with this bug) there's a non-zero probability that the interrupt handler will leave the direction flag in a different state.
It seems like an extremely unlikely event, but one that's probably caused some number of unexplained (and irreproducible) glitches over the past several years.
You're driving in your new gcc-4.3.0-built car, when you come to a traffic light that's red. When it changes to green, your car may have silently slipped into reverse, but you won't know until you press the gas pedal.
For standard transmissions: you car was written in assembly language, so no problem here.
What!? Pretending the other side has much more effective hardware, ala the Soviet Union's illusory missile gap(s)?
Don't you see that that would mean that Navy/DoD staff would have to go to Congress and ask for $billions more to upgrade the Navy hardware, and they would hardly have a chance to see that project underway before they'd be retiring to positions at defense contractor. Who would go for that?
Get real.
As of July, a majority favored impeaching Cheney, and it was close on Bush:
So the Congressional Democrats are distancing themselves from the majority and certainly from their party members. Probably partly because they get saturated with "info" from all the boot-licking media and consultants based in Washington and NY.
Of course many people try to characterize impeachment as a fringe movement... because that's the only rhetorical angle left: per the Constitution or the will of the people, impeachment of Cheney is quite reasonable. Particularly considering the damage done to the country.
Hopefully we'll see criminal proceedings at some point. There's a lot of personal responsibility that still needs to be apportioned.
Perhaps because being cynical and smug about every evil action one encounters doesn't actually seem to make anyone any better off? Except the evildoers, of course.
I.e., their corporate version. At least that's what they say:
pay no attention to the text behind the subject
Actually, yeah. I think he did a credible job (given what he had to work with).
It always seemed to me that people saw in him themselves as teenagers, which was the true cause for the extreme reactions (i.e., it was really self-loathing).
Of course, the character could have been made more interesting and less like one of the Boy Scouts from a David Brin novel, but that wasn't the actor's fault.
Agreed. All the long, convoluted code I've seen in C++ (several companies over two decades) has been from the worst programmers. I have no idea where the author (apparently) got that idea, assuming it's not a misstatement from the reviewer.
Except: you are forgetting that Microsoft is clearly a monopoly and has been legally recognized as such.
For various reasons having to do the meaning of "free market", monopolies are generally required to be more open than random companies like BitMover.
At least when the anti-trust laws are enforced they are.
The rules are different for monopolies. At least when they're enforced.
Not an answer to your question, but a response to the responses:
:-/
I found it a little funny (well, at 1:50am) that the problems others attribute to OO misinterpreting Word docs are problems I've seen recently, using exactly one installation of Word (2003) on the same machine.
Of course I tried "reveal codes": nothing obvious. I tried exporting to RTF and reimporting (massive file got much much bigger). Ended up cutting and pasting from Word to Notepad (to remove all formatting) and again back to a new Word doc. Problem solved!
Hardly the first time I've had MS documents just become unusable. So I think having public specs and multiple implementations would actually improve MS Office.
Hell, just cleaning the specs up enough to publish would probably pay for itself (from MS' perspective: fewer bugs in MS Office).
Oh, yeah, Word format was gratuitously required.
... of the same name.
The character was the Psi Corp leader, hunting down (other) telepaths. Played by Walter Koenig of the original Star Trek.
http://www.oinc.net/B5/Enc/pcd/bester.htmlFair enough criticism, but how would you propose that these certifying groups be supported?
Taxes? Bake sales? Fund-raising drives?
Uhhm, no. I'm not a lawyer, but: a patent gives you the right to prevent other people from doing something, and it essentially doesn't matter what form they do it in. And the patent is public information, freely available from the USPTO.
You might be thinking of trade secrets, which do lose their power when they are disclosed.
They'd prove patent infringement by comparing what the patent describes with what the supposed infringer does.
And of course this doesn't even touch on the ludicrous basis of software patents in the U.S. today.
This "reputable attorney" concept... how does it relate to SCO/Caldera?
Ahh... maybe you're thinking they're actually trying to win in court, as opposed to simply spreading FUD for as long as possible while bleeding the company/investors dry? I suppose anything's possible...