Actually I do, or rather I did, when I made it a choice to subscribe to AT&T phone service. Phone service over cable rather then traditional POTS service.
The box has since been removed... so I offially have no flip on access to another phone that runs over diffrent poles to a diffrent CO.
Stern's complaint is that he's being forced into moving his show onto a subscription-based satellite radio service. However, if he moves there the FCC won't have any abilty to complain about what he says anymore.
I'm not a big fan of Stern my self... I don't watch or listen to his program because I find it uninteresting. I appricate his need to protest our cencorships laws, and support him to that end. If he must move to a satellite radio service, that would be fine too, as he can protest all he wants nation wide.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are filtering out any negative-to-the-government information of any kind from all forms of media. That's much more serious.
I would agree... but just like Howard Stern being forced to move to satellite radio, wouldn't it be reasonable that a population who wants free access to information switch to a standard that can't be blocked by boarders... like radio perhaps?
You raise an interesting question, how their censorship is implemented.
If you read the link from the story [ http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2004/03/all_typ epad_sit.html ] you'll see in paragraph one there is a proxy link [http://www.unipeak.com/getpage.php?_u_r_l_= aHR0cD ovL2dsdXR0ZXIudHlwZXBhZC5jb20vZ2x1dHRlci8yMDA0LzAz L2FsbF90eXBlcGFkX3NpdC5odG1s
While this isn't direct evidence as to what they are doing to block sites... it would sugest that a proxy without the censored text in the link will still get through. It also makes a vague reference to "blocking software".
I would think that if the purpose is to block communication, one would block http as well as e-mail... but it would generally be easier if they block the site in question. I don't think you are foolish for sugesting the use of Gopher, no more foolish then trying to access the site via http over a diffrent port. However, I'd suspect that a proxy would be a more viable solution, depending on the nature of the blocking software.
Kepone took their name from a pesticide that was manufactured by the Allied signal Corporation of Hopewell, Va. in the '70's. The sad story goes that whilst Allied Signal were developing Kepone they discovered through testing that even trace amounts of the chemical could cause severe neurological damage if human beings came into contact with it. Despite this the now rejected pesticide was dumped into the local Appomattox River where it remains today covered by a layer of sediment preventing even the dredging of the river.
I believe I was first made aware of the problem reading National Geographic late 1980 subject I believe was The Chesapeake Bay, but my memory is vague.
...just become part of the muck...
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"Everyone assumed they'd just become part of the muck, if you will," Bucher said. "This is telling us we need to pay attention to this area."
It makes me think about the time I lived in Virgina near the Appomattox River. The charming Allied Signal were developing Kepone, but after discovering it caused nerve damage to humans dumped it in the river. It remains today part of the muck... so toxic they won't consider dredging it.
I'm sure there are other examples of toxic waste which was assumed to be safe when it just became part of the muck... it just scares me that this is the logic used in may cases.
Damn, we're destroying Earth at a faster pace than it can repair itself and we won't accept responsiblity to care for it, how the hell are we going to take care of TWO planets?
I always thought this was an important subject to research because of the fact that we won't take any accountability for what we're doing to the Earth... and at some point we're going to have to fix the damage we caused.
New worlds are not opened and settled by ethicists, moralists, or other contemplative types.
Columbus, Pizzaro, Cortez, and others were interested in wealth, property and prestige
It's the moralists pushing christianity that scarred me. I think I would have prefered greed, corruption, and the quest for glory... it's far less violent.
While it is important to know the nuts and bolts of administration, it is often more convenient to have a tool. Also, a higher-level application makes complex configurations easier to handle. Webmin provides point-and-click configuration for beginning and experienced administrators.
It's important to know where the hell all those trivial configeration files are. Rather then waiting for "find" to find that damn file, you can use webmin's edit manualy feature, or hit module config. Very useful when you ask your self "where the hell did apache get moved to in redhat x.xx". Better yet, you can print off where the hell everything is at so you are not scratching your head if webmin failes and you don't remember the specific name of some specific file which might vary from distro to distro.
America has enough in the way of issues with giving kids something to do. Dance clubs, live bands, and many forms of entertainment are 21+ only. This lack of entertainment gets worse the smaller the town.
I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I show them how to do is get media online. It sure beats drinking, doing drugs, and generally getting into trouble. Making what I perceive as a wholesom activity a criminal act will result in one less thing to do. Why risk 10 years in jail when you can just smoke some pot and risk only 2 years in jail?
Statement's like this are totally, well, retarded:
*Training: OpenOffice is, for the most part, the same as Microsoft Office XP for a user, but there are things that they will need to learn how to do differently. All things being equal, if a company's staff need formal training for OpenOffice, then they probably need it for every new version of Microsoft Office. Therefore there is a cost on both sides, and they are at least equal.
So, the whole paragraph is an assumption to start off with. But it is also contradictory and misleading: "but there are things that they will need to learn how to do differently. All things being equal,", for example.
I agree I find this paragraph rather vague, and misleading. Assuming your company hires staff to train the staff in either word processing program, it's possible the cost could be equal. However, a person who wants to be employable likely would take a basic entry level class... and chances are this would be for MS office. If a person is already schooled in an application... this costs the a business nothing.
While I might disagree with the idea of teaching exclusivly MS Office... until the schools see the wisdom of teaching multiable applications to teach the concepts of figuring out how to use something new there will be a strong business case for just buying MS Office.
While i'd be willing to believe it's possible training would cost less then a legit MS license... i'd have to see the numbers.
Sounds like plenty of alternatives to me. Without Microsoft, don't you think that all of these players would have been able to step into the desktop market and compete with eachother?
Again... I said "Microsoft's Business model", not Microsoft. I believe that any one of these players had the ability to step up to the desktop market, each of whom had their own OS they were perfectly happy with. I'm sure any of them would have been willing to sell a license to their OS... but I doublt highly that any would be willing to sell such a license sub $100... after all hardware companies have much higher overhead then software ones.... and for each sale of a licensed OS to a third party means one less PC sale.
I believe that these guys would have realized, (in this alternative sans-Microsoft universe) that they needed a set of standards to work with. either.
This may be true... or another software company may have made an operating system they were willing to sell to anyone who wanted it. Keep in mind that in the early 80s... it was believed the money was in the hardware, not the software. Microsoft was unique in the fact that their flagship product was easily coppied... and to the old school types this wasn't considered to be a viable business plan. Cloning the PC and selling a product that could be duplicated for pennies with an insane profit margin was, I argue, the whole reason the PC world is what it is today.
Otherwise, we would be at the mercy of HP / Dec / Sun / etc's prices. Plenty of alternatives... but it's the whole decentralization of PC software production that cause the revolution as we know it.
Among the deaf... TDD is still somewhat popular to communicate with others... after all a traditional telephone is pretty worthless. If one were log / monitor a TTD terminal... this would clearly be a form of wiretapping. I've always found it most annoying the cost of a TDD compatable modem vs the cost of a regular modem.
What seems to be more popular among the deaf these days is instent messenging. After all for the cost of a dedicated TTD terminal you can buy a full blown PC easily. It makes sense to get net access so you don't even need to tweek with your modem to set it to auto answer... just use the existing clients already on the market and communicate with anyone you damn well please.
Assuming that a TDD terminal is protected from wiretapping the same as a telephone, after all it is not only a telephony device but also a communications device, why would we even consider a PC any diffrent? Even if we are talking about just a keystroke logger... you put your self in a position to not only monitor what a person does that may not be communication related, but you can see what they communicate as well.
Nonsense. CP/M would have filled the same niche. Bill Gates was just lucky that the Kildalls (specifically his wife) stuffed up the deal of a lifetime.
If you'll note, I said, "Microsoft's business model"" not Microsoft Dos... I was very careful in the way I phreased my statement. It had little to do with Microsoft and their product... it had alot to do with the fact they were willing to license it to anyone with the cash.
Nice link... looks like they support only hardware encoding tuner cards, rather then software ones.
The conexant 878 doesn't seem to be supported under SageTV... but according to the mailing list one user is using the a card with the conexant 878 chipset with myth TV http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003- June/005778.html
Otherwise SageTV looks interesting enough to try.. I'd try it my self but I'm stuck with a kworld mpeg2 tuner card.
Because without a large "evil" bad guy to rail against, no-one would bother writing OSS.
[x] Strongly disagree
I believe OSS would have continued to develop regardless of the existance of microsoft. If i'm not mistaken, Linux it self was developed so one could play with a *nix type system on x86 hardware without the high cost. If this is true, then it has little to do microsoft at all, but rather something to do with the very high cost of a true blue AT&T licensed *nix.
My belief is based in part of all the free software I could get on compuserve pre 1985... many of the applications you could request the source. Also, basic code was commonly published in computer mags, which is about as open source as you can get.
Microsoft's business model, like it or not, made the clone industry possible... causing the clone PC to actually take a hold of the market. If it wasn't for the fact that you could buy / pirate a copy of MS-dos for your clone... we may have had no alternative but to buy from IBM / Apple / Commodore / Atari / Dec / Sun what ever what have you. While this may have been good in many ways, all seem to have been more interested in the end user just buying a new PC every few years without assurances of binary downward compataiblity. If we're talking Sun / SGI / Dec... I highly doubt that your typicaly home user would be able to afford a license. Microsoft was sub $100 for your sub $1000 pc... and like it or not, this wasn't a bad deal esp to those who just pirated a copy from a friend... as it was the custom.
Please explain how pocket, portable computing would have been possible even ten years ago. The hardware was the limiting factor. Microsoft had nothing to do with it - the state of the semiconductor industry did. We didn't have CPUs that worked withotu sucking *lots* of juice. NMOS CPUs were very power hungry.
20 years ago, the Tandy corp had a number of portables on the market. First notable ones are the Tandy 100/200/300. These are slightly larger then a handheld, full sized keyboards, and the model 100 I believe offered 20 hours of battery life on AA batteries, at least according to my google search. Spread sheet, wordprocessor, and database I believe were all standard on the model 300, as well as basic.
http://www.oldcomputers.net/trs80pc3.html The old Tandy TRS-80 PC-3 pocket computer. only one line * 24, but did offer basic, you could load it up with programs, and could do a vast number of things with it. I remember in 1985 I could buy one of these at my local radioshack for $100 or so.
Keep in mind that these are examples from the early 1980s.
Wouldn't it be nice if TiVO could download informaiton on cars, and then you could have it display that information at your leasure?
Rather like those mailing lists you can subscribe to when you install your WeatherBug or similar software... the ones that flood your inbox that you never pay attention to, and won't ever go away dispite the fact you are no longer interested.
At some point in my history... I was using pine, and sending mail. I set name using chfn "first I last", though my memory could be foggy and it could have been "first I. last". This wasn't a problem for any mail server except for AOL... for some reason it wouldn't parse correctly and try to send mail to "first I@domain.com"
Dispite honest efforts trying to get a hold of the mail staff, by my self and my isp... at no point was it possible to actually report the problem to anyone.
The final solution was just changing my name to "first last"... as it was important at the time to actually to get proper replies from people at AOL for some reason.
While not directly related to story... it just goes to show you that trying to actually communicate with anyone with in the AOL realm is practicaly impossible, and you should just give up before you start. The best you can do is communicate to people that AOL has *this* problem and your only resolve is to either do things diffrently, or switch services.
in which case without being installed by a manufacturer no-one is going to even contemplate wiping their "working" bios for an unknown 3rd party of no significant benefit to them
I'm not sure the current license fee for a bios... but this would be of some great benifit to the lowest bid type computer makers like e-machines. I could also see someone re-branding other motherboards purchaced in bulk, like we see with PC chips motherboards, and saving money using a free-bios. Not like I haven't seen pirated bios's before... this way it would be legit.
Tell me that paper wasn't YOUR idea and that he didn't just STEAL it!
plagiarism
n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
Source: WordNet (R) 1.6, (C) 1997 Princeton University
You can take someone elses idea, and use it as your own... but you didn't take a piece of their brain.. they still have that idea. It's still their work they submited on their own.
Filesharing it self isn't about plagiarizing other people's works in order to prophet by them. It's about sharing media you may, or may not have license to do so.
The parent is a good rant, but negates the fact that "stealing an idea" is a metaphore. Emotionaly you can feel violated, and i'm sure there are some legal remidies you can pursue with in the university system or civil court if you feel so included. It's not theft in the criminal sense. If they paraphrased the paper, it might not even be considered plagiarism if you didn't site the author as the source.
one country's legal system shouldn't be beholden to another's. this is true regardless of the outcome
I'm confused on this issue... but ownership of the IP in question is being disputed by American companies, it would make sense for the ACCC to wait for the courts to establish ownership before making the valued judgement of whether they have any evidence to support their request for license fees for their property. Also... why waste your own nations money on something that is little more then a Jerry Springard style dispute when you can just wait it out till someone is willing to put something on paper who owns what. SCO owns something, frankly I don't think anyone is sure what the hell they own, I don't they are even sure.
The German rulling I feel says nothing about any evidence SCO may or may not have... as near as I'm aware they just didn't provide any. Could mean they don't have any or don't want to share anything.
Would you want to spend any resources actually figuring out who owns what when you have this long chain of AT&T -> Novel -> SCO, let alone the whole AT&T / BSD mess. Hell I wouldn't.
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Would you like hashbrowns with that?
Actually I do, or rather I did, when I made it a choice to subscribe to AT&T phone service. Phone service over cable rather then traditional POTS service.
The box has since been removed... so I offially have no flip on access to another phone that runs over diffrent poles to a diffrent CO.
Stern's complaint is that he's being forced into moving his show onto a subscription-based satellite radio service. However, if he moves there the FCC won't have any abilty to complain about what he says anymore.
I'm not a big fan of Stern my self... I don't watch or listen to his program because I find it uninteresting. I appricate his need to protest our cencorships laws, and support him to that end. If he must move to a satellite radio service, that would be fine too, as he can protest all he wants nation wide.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are filtering out any negative-to-the-government information of any kind from all forms of media. That's much more serious.
I would agree... but just like Howard Stern being forced to move to satellite radio, wouldn't it be reasonable that a population who wants free access to information switch to a standard that can't be blocked by boarders... like radio perhaps?
You raise an interesting question, how their censorship is implemented.
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If you read the link from the story [ http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2004/03/all_ty
[http://www.unipeak.com/getpage.php?_u_r_l_
While this isn't direct evidence as to what they are doing to block sites... it would sugest that a proxy without the censored text in the link will still get through. It also makes a vague reference to "blocking software".
I would think that if the purpose is to block communication, one would block http as well as e-mail... but it would generally be easier if they block the site in question. I don't think you are foolish for sugesting the use of Gopher, no more foolish then trying to access the site via http over a diffrent port. However, I'd suspect that a proxy would be a more viable solution, depending on the nature of the blocking software.
'At least we're better then China' isn't really something to be overly proud of.
Pretty soon, they will have the largest dam, a space program, and still have the worlds largest population.
If you click on the biography link... you'll see
--http://www.southern.com/southern/band/KEPON/b
I believe I was first made aware of the problem reading National Geographic late 1980 subject I believe was The Chesapeake Bay, but my memory is vague.
It makes me think about the time I lived in Virgina near the Appomattox River. The charming Allied Signal were developing Kepone, but after discovering it caused nerve damage to humans dumped it in the river. It remains today part of the muck... so toxic they won't consider dredging it.
I'm sure there are other examples of toxic waste which was assumed to be safe when it just became part of the muck... it just scares me that this is the logic used in may cases.
Damn, we're destroying Earth at a faster pace than it can repair itself and we won't accept responsiblity to care for it, how the hell are we going to take care of TWO planets?
I always thought this was an important subject to research because of the fact that we won't take any accountability for what we're doing to the Earth... and at some point we're going to have to fix the damage we caused.
If we could find massive cave systems around volcanic areas, it would be even easier to build a huge contained ecosystem...
You always have the moon. It's not nearly so far away... and would be a good proving ground for biodome.
New worlds are not opened and settled by ethicists, moralists, or other contemplative types.
Columbus, Pizzaro, Cortez, and others were interested in wealth, property and prestige
It's the moralists pushing christianity that scarred me. I think I would have prefered greed, corruption, and the quest for glory... it's far less violent.
It's important to know where the hell all those trivial configeration files are. Rather then waiting for "find" to find that damn file, you can use webmin's edit manualy feature, or hit module config. Very useful when you ask your self "where the hell did apache get moved to in redhat x.xx". Better yet, you can print off where the hell everything is at so you are not scratching your head if webmin failes and you don't remember the specific name of some specific file which might vary from distro to distro.
America has enough in the way of issues with giving kids something to do. Dance clubs, live bands, and many forms of entertainment are 21+ only. This lack of entertainment gets worse the smaller the town.
I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I show them how to do is get media online. It sure beats drinking, doing drugs, and generally getting into trouble. Making what I perceive as a wholesom activity a criminal act will result in one less thing to do. Why risk 10 years in jail when you can just smoke some pot and risk only 2 years in jail?
So, the whole paragraph is an assumption to start off with. But it is also contradictory and misleading: "but there are things that they will need to learn how to do differently. All things being equal,", for example.
I agree I find this paragraph rather vague, and misleading. Assuming your company hires staff to train the staff in either word processing program, it's possible the cost could be equal. However, a person who wants to be employable likely would take a basic entry level class... and chances are this would be for MS office. If a person is already schooled in an application... this costs the a business nothing.
While I might disagree with the idea of teaching exclusivly MS Office... until the schools see the wisdom of teaching multiable applications to teach the concepts of figuring out how to use something new there will be a strong business case for just buying MS Office.
While i'd be willing to believe it's possible training would cost less then a legit MS license... i'd have to see the numbers.
Sounds like plenty of alternatives to me.
Without Microsoft, don't you think that all of these players would have been able to step into the desktop market and compete with eachother?
Again... I said "Microsoft's Business model", not Microsoft. I believe that any one of these players had the ability to step up to the desktop market, each of whom had their own OS they were perfectly happy with. I'm sure any of them would have been willing to sell a license to their OS... but I doublt highly that any would be willing to sell such a license sub $100... after all hardware companies have much higher overhead then software ones.... and for each sale of a licensed OS to a third party means one less PC sale.
I believe that these guys would have realized, (in this alternative sans-Microsoft universe) that they needed a set of standards to work with. either.
This may be true... or another software company may have made an operating system they were willing to sell to anyone who wanted it. Keep in mind that in the early 80s... it was believed the money was in the hardware, not the software. Microsoft was unique in the fact that their flagship product was easily coppied... and to the old school types this wasn't considered to be a viable business plan. Cloning the PC and selling a product that could be duplicated for pennies with an insane profit margin was, I argue, the whole reason the PC world is what it is today.
Otherwise, we would be at the mercy of HP / Dec / Sun / etc's prices. Plenty of alternatives... but it's the whole decentralization of PC software production that cause the revolution as we know it.
Among the deaf... TDD is still somewhat popular to communicate with others... after all a traditional telephone is pretty worthless. If one were log / monitor a TTD terminal... this would clearly be a form of wiretapping. I've always found it most annoying the cost of a TDD compatable modem vs the cost of a regular modem.
What seems to be more popular among the deaf these days is instent messenging. After all for the cost of a dedicated TTD terminal you can buy a full blown PC easily. It makes sense to get net access so you don't even need to tweek with your modem to set it to auto answer... just use the existing clients already on the market and communicate with anyone you damn well please.
Assuming that a TDD terminal is protected from wiretapping the same as a telephone, after all it is not only a telephony device but also a communications device, why would we even consider a PC any diffrent? Even if we are talking about just a keystroke logger... you put your self in a position to not only monitor what a person does that may not be communication related, but you can see what they communicate as well.
Nonsense. CP/M would have filled the same niche. Bill Gates was just lucky that the Kildalls (specifically his wife) stuffed up the deal of a lifetime.
If you'll note, I said, "Microsoft's business model"" not Microsoft Dos... I was very careful in the way I phreased my statement. It had little to do with Microsoft and their product... it had alot to do with the fact they were willing to license it to anyone with the cash.
Nice link... looks like they support only hardware encoding tuner cards, rather then software ones.
- June/005778.html
The conexant 878 doesn't seem to be supported under SageTV... but according to the mailing list one user is using the a card with the conexant 878 chipset with myth TV http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003
Otherwise SageTV looks interesting enough to try.. I'd try it my self but I'm stuck with a kworld mpeg2 tuner card.
Because without a large "evil" bad guy to rail against, no-one would bother writing OSS.
[x] Strongly disagree
I believe OSS would have continued to develop regardless of the existance of microsoft. If i'm not mistaken, Linux it self was developed so one could play with a *nix type system on x86 hardware without the high cost. If this is true, then it has little to do microsoft at all, but rather something to do with the very high cost of a true blue AT&T licensed *nix.
My belief is based in part of all the free software I could get on compuserve pre 1985... many of the applications you could request the source. Also, basic code was commonly published in computer mags, which is about as open source as you can get.
Microsoft's business model, like it or not, made the clone industry possible... causing the clone PC to actually take a hold of the market. If it wasn't for the fact that you could buy / pirate a copy of MS-dos for your clone... we may have had no alternative but to buy from IBM / Apple / Commodore / Atari / Dec / Sun what ever what have you. While this may have been good in many ways, all seem to have been more interested in the end user just buying a new PC every few years without assurances of binary downward compataiblity. If we're talking Sun / SGI / Dec... I highly doubt that your typicaly home user would be able to afford a license. Microsoft was sub $100 for your sub $1000 pc... and like it or not, this wasn't a bad deal esp to those who just pirated a copy from a friend... as it was the custom.
Please explain how pocket, portable computing would have been possible even ten years ago. The hardware was the limiting factor. Microsoft had nothing to do with it - the state of the semiconductor industry did. We didn't have CPUs that worked withotu sucking *lots* of juice. NMOS CPUs were very power hungry.
20 years ago, the Tandy corp had a number of portables on the market. First notable ones are the Tandy 100/200/300. These are slightly larger then a handheld, full sized keyboards, and the model 100 I believe offered 20 hours of battery life on AA batteries, at least according to my google search. Spread sheet, wordprocessor, and database I believe were all standard on the model 300, as well as basic.
http://www.oldcomputers.net/trs80pc3.html
The old Tandy TRS-80 PC-3 pocket computer. only one line * 24, but did offer basic, you could load it up with programs, and could do a vast number of things with it. I remember in 1985 I could buy one of these at my local radioshack for $100 or so.
Keep in mind that these are examples from the early 1980s.
Wouldn't it be nice if TiVO could download informaiton on cars, and then you could have it display that information at your leasure?
Rather like those mailing lists you can subscribe to when you install your WeatherBug or similar software... the ones that flood your inbox that you never pay attention to, and won't ever go away dispite the fact you are no longer interested.
Great!
At some point in my history... I was using pine, and sending mail. I set name using chfn "first I last", though my memory could be foggy and it could have been "first I. last". This wasn't a problem for any mail server except for AOL... for some reason it wouldn't parse correctly and try to send mail to "first I@domain.com"
Dispite honest efforts trying to get a hold of the mail staff, by my self and my isp... at no point was it possible to actually report the problem to anyone.
The final solution was just changing my name to "first last"... as it was important at the time to actually to get proper replies from people at AOL for some reason.
While not directly related to story... it just goes to show you that trying to actually communicate with anyone with in the AOL realm is practicaly impossible, and you should just give up before you start. The best you can do is communicate to people that AOL has *this* problem and your only resolve is to either do things diffrently, or switch services.
in which case without being installed by a manufacturer no-one is going to even contemplate wiping their "working" bios for an unknown 3rd party of no significant benefit to them
I'm not sure the current license fee for a bios... but this would be of some great benifit to the lowest bid type computer makers like e-machines. I could also see someone re-branding other motherboards purchaced in bulk, like we see with PC chips motherboards, and saving money using a free-bios. Not like I haven't seen pirated bios's before... this way it would be legit.
You can take someone elses idea, and use it as your own... but you didn't take a piece of their brain.. they still have that idea. It's still their work they submited on their own.
Filesharing it self isn't about plagiarizing other people's works in order to prophet by them. It's about sharing media you may, or may not have license to do so.
The parent is a good rant, but negates the fact that "stealing an idea" is a metaphore. Emotionaly you can feel violated, and i'm sure there are some legal remidies you can pursue with in the university system or civil court if you feel so included. It's not theft in the criminal sense. If they paraphrased the paper, it might not even be considered plagiarism if you didn't site the author as the source.
one country's legal system shouldn't be beholden to another's. this is true regardless of the outcome
I'm confused on this issue... but ownership of the IP in question is being disputed by American companies, it would make sense for the ACCC to wait for the courts to establish ownership before making the valued judgement of whether they have any evidence to support their request for license fees for their property. Also... why waste your own nations money on something that is little more then a Jerry Springard style dispute when you can just wait it out till someone is willing to put something on paper who owns what. SCO owns something, frankly I don't think anyone is sure what the hell they own, I don't they are even sure.
The German rulling I feel says nothing about any evidence SCO may or may not have... as near as I'm aware they just didn't provide any. Could mean they don't have any or don't want to share anything.
Would you want to spend any resources actually figuring out who owns what when you have this long chain of AT&T -> Novel -> SCO, let alone the whole AT&T / BSD mess. Hell I wouldn't.