This is the wrong approach to the question.
1. Complying with laws is not always right.
- Otherwise through history you'd be supporting reporting on activities by Jews (to Nazis) Socialists (to Pinochet's Chile) or Tibetan separatists.
2. Google is deceaving its customers.
- By definition, if you filter the results you are not providing the correct results for a search.
3. MAY be ilegal.
I would have to re-check on this, but I kind of remember reading how a US company can be punished by collaborating with Human Rights violations abroad (right to information).
4. What is next?.
Although ISPs can already do this, would Google report on the IP addresses which make certain searches?
...The machine, called Springtail, can hit speeds up to 90 miles an hour, and its 10-gallon tank of diesel fuel is good for 2.25 hours of flight.
Just use biodiesel. http://www.biodiesel.org/
As I see it, the only valid solution is to align the interests of the
developers with those of the end users by creating a market where one
or more users can commission (and pay for) from enhancements to
existing software to a full software package, and the software is later
released as GPL. I call it The Open Code Market.
I have developed the idea further
in a paper which you can find here.
It should be published in the next FirstMonday (November '03)... or not;-).
Has anyone started to Wiki the law to see if we can come up with
something better than the current Software Patent Directive proposed to the European Parliament?
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This is the wrong approach to the question. 1. Complying with laws is not always right. - Otherwise through history you'd be supporting reporting on activities by Jews (to Nazis) Socialists (to Pinochet's Chile) or Tibetan separatists. 2. Google is deceaving its customers. - By definition, if you filter the results you are not providing the correct results for a search. 3. MAY be ilegal. I would have to re-check on this, but I kind of remember reading how a US company can be punished by collaborating with Human Rights violations abroad (right to information). 4. What is next?. Although ISPs can already do this, would Google report on the IP addresses which make certain searches?
...The machine, called Springtail, can hit speeds up to 90 miles an hour, and its 10-gallon tank of diesel fuel is good for 2.25 hours of flight. Just use biodiesel. http://www.biodiesel.org/
Really savvy students would have them scanned.
No, the idea is to release all under GPL.
As I see it, the only valid solution is to align the interests of the developers with those of the end users by creating a market where one or more users can commission (and pay for) from enhancements to existing software to a full software package, and the software is later released as GPL. I call it The Open Code Market.
... or not ;-).
I have developed the idea further in a paper which you can find here. It should be published in the next FirstMonday (November '03)
Try sending them an e-mail. See what happens.
Has anyone started to Wiki the law to see if we can come up with something better than the current Software Patent Directive proposed to the European Parliament?
A vote on it would be nice.