The main purpose of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" is to give people recipes about how make bombs so that they can do so if they desire. The main purpose of source code is to give the compiler a recipe about how to assemble a binary file. In both cases, prior restraint of publication of the recipe have now been declared unconstitutional (go team!). There may exist national security concerns, but this legislation sweeps too broadly and fails under strict scrutiny.
Besides, the better analogy is to math formulas and jargon, which were already previously covered by the 1st ammendment.
It's not that they don't apply to INTERNATIONAL copyright regulations, but rather that they don't apply to ANY copyright regulations. Congress (Senate) cannot simply evade the constitution by enacting its unconstitutional legislation as a treaty. If the UN decided that countries should amputate the legs of all their citizens, it would still violate the 8th ammendment.
But in the case of general web usage, where a window-frame making company might use "windows" in their META tags, but at no other time violates MS's trademark, I don't think this case applies.
Seriously, look it up. Do you think they'd be using "tm" instead of (c) if they actually had a registered trademark?
The Federal government is not any less prone to stupidity and bias than any state government (Bowers v. Hardwick comes to mind). Moreover, if one state screws up then you have the option of moving to another state, whereas if the Federal government screws up, then you pretty much have to flee the government. Gun laws and religion laws are unconstitutional no matter how you slice it, so simply go ahead and use your Federally constructed Supreme Court to nullify them. Please don't destroy our constitutional way of life simply as a matter of expediency.
I have a feeling it could be really annoying. Think about it, you are working on an important school project or something, and with 5 minutes interval some commercial for... Microsoft pops up, and you have to close it before continuing your work.
Since everything's under the GPL, what assetts does RedHat actually have? Mindshare, a few trademarks, its personel... what else? Albeit, they retain the copyrights on whatever they've written themselves, which could potentially be relicensed (as could future works), but we're not talking about Lucent here. There aren't any transocianic cables or fab plants involved.
... or at least the parts that he owns the copyright to. He could release those parts under any sort of other liscense (including closed-source ones) he wants. Of course, as far as the actual GPLed code circulating out there, that's fair game for everyone and impossible to retract or recall.
Gawd, I loved that place. Some of the most amazing stuff. It was there that I was first confronted with the idea that some man might be so overweight as to have a belly-button with a diameter measured in decimeters. Ah, nostalgia.
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And with a 15-year-old son no less. Ok maybe 51 is a bit old to be having a son...
Linux which never crashes or NT which does...?
It seems too many morons out there are choosing NT anyway.
That way people can filter it out if they don't want. Pretty sensible.
The main purpose of "The Anarchist's Cookbook" is to give people recipes about how make bombs so that they can do so if they desire. The main purpose of source code is to give the compiler a recipe about how to assemble a binary file. In both cases, prior restraint of publication of the recipe have now been declared unconstitutional (go team!). There may exist national security concerns, but this legislation sweeps too broadly and fails under strict scrutiny.
Besides, the better analogy is to math formulas and jargon, which were already previously covered by the 1st ammendment.
It's not that they don't apply to INTERNATIONAL copyright regulations, but rather that they don't apply to ANY copyright regulations. Congress (Senate) cannot simply evade the constitution by enacting its unconstitutional legislation as a treaty. If the UN decided that countries should amputate the legs of all their citizens, it would still violate the 8th ammendment.
Remember, the UN were the ones who said "Oh sorry, we didn't realize, this is YOUR Suez Canal. We'll go home now; to hell with Israel".
The Conpass x-1280 runs on an Windows-based 350Mhz Intel Pentium II workstation
Insert some reference to a BSOD here.
But in the case of general web usage, where a window-frame making company might use "windows"
in their META tags, but at no other time
violates MS's trademark, I don't think this
case applies.
Seriously, look it up. Do you think they'd be using "tm" instead of (c) if they actually had a registered trademark?
refers to the option of the person who is redistributing the gpl'ed code, not the one who wrote it.
The Federal government is not any less prone to stupidity and bias than any state government (Bowers v. Hardwick comes to mind). Moreover, if one state screws up then you have the option of moving to another state, whereas if the Federal government screws up, then you pretty much have to flee the government. Gun laws and religion laws are unconstitutional no matter how you slice it, so simply go ahead and use your Federally constructed Supreme Court to nullify them. Please don't destroy our constitutional way of life simply as a matter of expediency.
I have a feeling it could be really annoying. Think about it, you are working on an important school project or something, and with 5 minutes interval some commercial for... Microsoft pops up, and you have to close it before continuing your work.
It's called the fscking paperclip.
Since everything's under the GPL, what assetts does RedHat actually have? Mindshare, a few trademarks, its personel... what else? Albeit, they retain the copyrights on whatever they've written themselves, which could potentially be relicensed (as could future works), but we're not talking about Lucent here. There aren't any transocianic cables or fab plants involved.
... or at least the parts that he owns the copyright to. He could release those parts under any sort of other liscense (including closed-source ones) he wants. Of course, as far as the actual GPLed code circulating out there, that's fair game for everyone and impossible to retract or recall.
"Designed in the early 1990s by University of Helsinki student Linus Torvald"
Phooey on fleeting esses.
Gawd, I loved that place. Some of the most amazing stuff. It was there that I was first confronted with the idea that some man might be so overweight as to have a belly-button with a diameter measured in decimeters. Ah, nostalgia.
Has anyone tried encoding any glass harmonic music lately? You can hear the individual encoding blocks clicking all over the place.