Now please stop reading this left-wing propaganda, and resume your consumption of FOXNEWS. Support our troops!!!
LIZ JACKSON: Two weeks after Cheney's speech, the Bush administration leaked the story of the aluminium tubes to the New York Times. It was front-page news. Anonymous officials were quoted saying there was new information that Iraq had embarked on a worldwide hunt for material to make an atomic bomb, and that the specifications of the aluminium tubes had persuaded American intelligence experts that the tubes were for Iraq's nuclear program. Administration officials warned, "The first sign of a 'smoking gun'...may be a mushroom cloud." There was no mention of any debate or dissension about the tubes at all.
You're right: what's the point of ridding a country from a vicious dictator who (1) brutalizes his own population, (2) destroys the environment, (3) instigates war and (4) supports terrorism unless you actually get some financial benefit from it?!?
(1) Agreed. (2) Not sure. (3) Yes, but with US support on both sides (Iran-Iraq war). (4) False.
Actually, I believe one million australians took to the streets and protested the war on Iraq (and those people probably had no objections to the war on Afghanistan), and Prime Minister Howard dimissed them as "the rabble".
What do you the the chances are that even one thousand people would protest IP harmoniZation?
Probably we will see a media release from EFA, but they are the
"ultimate doctrinaire libertarians" and not a word they say should be believed. (I'm quoting the former communications minister).
How do you know US proprietary software companies aren't incorporating GPL code into their compiled software? It's fine for them to use the LGPL code
without "infecting" their software as Microsoft
would argue. In fact Cisco's IOS line editing
makes use of the GPL readline library! But how do
you know MS WORD doesn't contain emacs code;-)
There's going to be a vote in the European Parliament on 1 September (originally today, Monday 30 June 2003) that will have enormous implications on the worldwide software market.
The vote will be on whether to adopt a report by its Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee that recommends the rules on patenting of software be relaxed in line with existing laws in the US and Japan.
It looks as though, despite widespread and deep criticism, the report will be adopted. And this will probably mean a shift of power from small software companies and the open source community to large multi-national corporations.
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note that there is already an example of microsoft using its patent of the ASF file format to force a reverse engineered feature to be removed from virtualdub software. you can read about it here.
i'm surprised nobody has mentioned samba yet. the samba team have been careful to work outside THE LAW (or at least it's jurisdiction), but it's only a matter of time before the world leading superpower pressures other nation states to "harmonize" their laws with the US:
CNN Article from 2000
"There are rather insane laws in the U.S. about reverse engineering, and so we sidestepped those by having the work done in Europe under the European Union fair-use laws," said Jeremy Allison, a software developer at VA Linux Systems Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Allison co-authored Samba, a Windows file-serving program that allows Unix machines to serve file-and-print services to Windows clients.
Allison said his team is forced to reverse engineer because Microsoft doesn't offer documentation of its proprietary protocols. But when the Samba team decoded the Microsoft domain controller protocol to allow Samba servers to interoperate with Windows NT, they made sure the work took place outside the U.S.
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Now please stop reading this left-wing propaganda, and resume your consumption of FOXNEWS. Support our troops!!!
LIZ JACKSON: Two weeks after Cheney's speech, the Bush administration leaked the story of the aluminium tubes to the New York Times. It was front-page news. Anonymous officials were quoted saying there was new information that Iraq had embarked on a worldwide hunt for material to make an atomic bomb, and that the specifications of the aluminium tubes had persuaded American intelligence experts that the tubes were for Iraq's nuclear program. Administration officials warned, "The first sign of a 'smoking gun'...may be a mushroom cloud." There was no mention of any debate or dissension about the tubes at all.
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(1) Agreed. (2) Not sure. (3) Yes, but with US support on both sides (Iran-Iraq war). (4) False.
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What do you the the chances are that even one thousand people would protest IP harmoniZation?
Probably we will see a media release from EFA, but they are the "ultimate doctrinaire libertarians" and not a word they say should be believed. (I'm quoting the former communications minister).
BTW, it's VB / MB / XXXX not fosters. :-)
How do you know US proprietary software companies aren't incorporating GPL code into their compiled software? It's fine for them to use the LGPL code without "infecting" their software as Microsoft would argue. In fact Cisco's IOS line editing makes use of the GPL readline library! But how do you know MS WORD doesn't contain emacs code ;-)
from an article dated jun-29-2003:
There's going to be a vote in the European Parliament on 1 September (originally today, Monday 30 June 2003) that will have enormous implications on the worldwide software market.
The vote will be on whether to adopt a report by its Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee that recommends the rules on patenting of software be relaxed in line with existing laws in the US and Japan.
It looks as though, despite widespread and deep criticism, the report will be adopted. And this will probably mean a shift of power from small software companies and the open source community to large multi-national corporations.
--
note that there is already an example of microsoft using its patent of the ASF file format to force a reverse engineered feature to be removed from virtualdub software. you can read about it here.
CNN Article from 2000 "There are rather insane laws in the U.S. about reverse engineering, and so we sidestepped those by having the work done in Europe under the European Union fair-use laws," said Jeremy Allison, a software developer at VA Linux Systems Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif. Allison co-authored Samba, a Windows file-serving program that allows Unix machines to serve file-and-print services to Windows clients. Allison said his team is forced to reverse engineer because Microsoft doesn't offer documentation of its proprietary protocols. But when the Samba team decoded the Microsoft domain controller protocol to allow Samba servers to interoperate with Windows NT, they made sure the work took place outside the U.S.