Standard Copyright Law (DMCA's "circumvention devices" clauses excepted) does not apply to data. It only applies to a specific representation of data. Thus, by rewriting the descriptions of the protocols in their own words with their own formatting, the original leaker may or may not be in violation, but further leakers in the chain after that will not be doing anything illegal, since the rewritten documentation would be intended to be freely distributed and none of the distributors except the original one agreed anything with MS.
Can't fall under trade secrets either because once information is in the public domain it can no longer be a trade secret (common sense).
That won't work - at least, not completely. In order to develop software without getting re-signed by Microsoft every time you recompile, you need to be able to run unsigned software. So they can't just remove that ability from the OS.
Yes it is. Just because they didn't go through the ECMA in the end doesn't mean Java's not standardised. The API and language is the same on every platform (given the same Java version).
Yes but amazingly, if you read the docs, this command is not recommended! This is one of the issues I'd have to see fixed before I'd consider switching from RedHat.
Sorry, I know what you mean now - I read the L&M story about the US & Israel discussion on the KDE mailing list... I see what you mean! Please ignore the parent comment.
What political undercurrent? Are you trying to say that LinuxAndMain is biased solely on the basis that it publishes articles critical of KDE League? If so, isn't that a bit like saying "I'm not going to read any articles heavily critical of Israel because they are written by people who are heavily critical of Israel"?
What do you expect them to do? Shut up? It seems like you are expecting the impossible in some sense.
Also it seems a little strange that you view LinuxAndMain with "distrust" because they are acting as a watchdog, but you don't view MSNBC with the same level of distrust even though they are part-owned by a direct competitor of KDE??
Yes, it is. Let me give an example from the last Gulf War:
The votes of the non-permanent members of the Security Council were crucial... Only Cuba and Yemen held out. Minutes after Yemen voted against the resolution to attack Iraq, a senior American diplomat told the Yemeni ambassador: "That was the most expensive 'no' vote you ever cast." Within three days, a US aid programme of $70m to one of the world's poorest countries was stopped. Yemen suddenly had problems with the World Bank and the IMF; and 800,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia... The punishment of impoverished countries that opposed the attack was severe. Sudan, in the grip of a famine, was denied a shipment of food aid. None of this was reported at the time. By now, news organisations had one objective: to secure a place close to the US command in Saudi Arabia. At the same time, Amnesty International published a searing account of torture, detention and arbitrary arrest by the Saudi regime. Twenty thousand Yemenis were being deported every day and as many as 800 had been tortured and ill-treated.
Neither the BBC nor ITN reported a word about this. "It is common knowledge in television," wrote Peter Lennon in the Guardian, "that fear of not being granted visas was the only consideration in withholding coverage of that embarrassing story."
People who sound like they are smoking crack have a tendency to post more and rant more than others, therefore they give a false impression of the spread of views in the Slashdot community.
Also, by their very nature they stand out more in your mind than "average, OK" comments.
If everybody voted for the candidate they truely felt best represented their views, I highly doubt we'd ever see anyone like Bush in office again.
That's pretty naive. Do you trust politicians to tell the truth about the policies they will implement or support? Just because someone calls themselves "Libertarian", doesn't mean they really are.
You may have more "Class not found" errors up front, but it makes it much easier to track down missing.jar files when you go to install, since the runtime knows the full name of the class you're trying to find.
Uh, imports don't exist at the runtime level (unless, I suppose, you're using some special runtime tool that scans all the source files for import statements). All class references are made fully-qualified in the generated.class files.
Any more than one and there's a potential for name conflicts.
Exactly - this is the real reason why imports should usually be explicit.
The European Union supports Kyoto - does that mean that the EU heads of state are "die-hard supporters of Greenpeace"?
Actually they are not. Blair for example cares very little about the environment - he's more interested in licking the boots of Bush and big business. But even he recognises that climate change is a real threat.
limit what I can do on my own computer? No way. Wrong.
But that's exactly what a software patent does. Literally.
It's like the GPL, which fights restrictions of copyright freedom with a restriction of copyright freedom. I think it's justifiable.
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Better to back Stalin than Hitler. I know, both were mass-murderers and totalitarian dictators, but at least parts of Western Europe stayed free after WW2. There was no possibility to fight both Stalin and Hitler at the same time.
Whether or not Jesus did in fact perform miracles does not show that God exists. If you are too stupid to see why, I helpfully explained this in another branch of this thread.
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Can't fall under trade secrets either because once information is in the public domain it can no longer be a trade secret (common sense).
Yes it is. Just because they didn't go through the ECMA in the end doesn't mean Java's not standardised. The API and language is the same on every platform (given the same Java version).
Yes but amazingly, if you read the docs, this command is not recommended! This is one of the issues I'd have to see fixed before I'd consider switching from RedHat.
That's an ironic comment considering your sig.
What do you expect them to do? Shut up? It seems like you are expecting the impossible in some sense.
Also it seems a little strange that you view LinuxAndMain with "distrust" because they are acting as a watchdog, but you don't view MSNBC with the same level of distrust even though they are part-owned by a direct competitor of KDE??
Yes, it is. Let me give an example from the last Gulf War:
Welcome to the Internet.
People who sound like they are smoking crack have a tendency to post more and rant more than others, therefore they give a false impression of the spread of views in the Slashdot community.
Also, by their very nature they stand out more in your mind than "average, OK" comments.
That's pretty naive. Do you trust politicians to tell the truth about the policies they will implement or support? Just because someone calls themselves "Libertarian", doesn't mean they really are.
Remind me - where was the FUD again?
Uh, imports don't exist at the runtime level (unless, I suppose, you're using some special runtime tool that scans all the source files for import statements). All class references are made fully-qualified in the generated .class files.
Any more than one and there's a potential for name conflicts.
Exactly - this is the real reason why imports should usually be explicit.
Actually they are not. Blair for example cares very little about the environment - he's more interested in licking the boots of Bush and big business. But even he recognises that climate change is a real threat.
But that's exactly what a software patent does. Literally.
It's like the GPL, which fights restrictions of copyright freedom with a restriction of copyright freedom. I think it's justifiable.
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