Wearable phone with head up display, bone conduction headset and
twiddler like 'keyboard' would allow non-disruptive use at theaters,
etc..
It could work like this: You get call. You hear it on your bone
conduction headset and see on head up display. You type replies with
twiddler and synthesizer converts text into sound and sends it to the
person at other side.
Other people might not even realize you have wearable phone and are
'talking' on it, see modern wearable computer example here.
Downside: Don't see anybody with above like product out... yet.
That EULA says that the GPL requires separate works distributed with GPL software to be GPL'd, which is false. Microsoft itself sells software that includes GPL tools.
Lawyer rings. "Remove your link to Illegal in USA immediately." "Sir, we don't link there. Please check your browser proxy settings and disable proxy."...
"Weird, now it shows it as text: http://outside_usa.com/illegal_in_usa.html (Illegal in USA). What happened?"
We know of course what is going on in above case.. Of course I'm assuming that mentioning places in newspaper and web will remain legal;-)
When do 'authorities' learn that you can just use plain English also? Of course in many cases it's not as easy to read for humans:-(
Copyrights and patents are artificial barriers against copying things. Are they useful? If yes, could there be others barriers too that could be useful?
If some existing artificial barrier is not useful, what should be done?
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It could work like this: You get call. You hear it on your bone conduction headset and see on head up display. You type replies with twiddler and synthesizer converts text into sound and sends it to the person at other side.
Other people might not even realize you have wearable phone and are 'talking' on it, see modern wearable computer example here.
Downside: Don't see anybody with above like product out ... yet.
That EULA says that the GPL requires separate works distributed with GPL software to be GPL'd, which is false. Microsoft itself sells software that includes GPL tools.
Forward in time ...
Lawyer rings. "Remove your link to Illegal in USA immediately." "Sir, we don't link there. Please check your browser proxy settings and disable proxy." ...
"Weird, now it shows it as text: http://outside_usa.com/illegal_in_usa.html (Illegal in USA). What happened?"
We know of course what is going on in above case.. Of course I'm assuming that mentioning places in newspaper and web will remain legal ;-)
When do 'authorities' learn that you can just use plain English also? Of course in many cases it's not as easy to read for humans :-(
If some existing artificial barrier is not useful, what should be done?
Disclaimer: I'm main author of it and there are lots of things to do. Only time will tell if my intuition is right here.
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Here is summary of "Basic Patent Law for Programmers" -discussion. We should analyse possible solutions that were presented and see what of those should be employed.