That BSDVault "Windows Media Player EULA" Announcement
Sun, 25/05/2008 - 5:55am — Homer
Contributed by DittoHead on Friday, June 28, 2002 @ 10:36:24 EDT
I read this article about Microsoft's Palladium Digital Rights Management last week, linked from the Drudge Report. The story was reported in many other places, so I didn't submit it here.
Mono's Mysterious "special rules"
Wed, 23/04/2008 - 1:41pm — HomerJust picked this up from the Gnome-Devel mailing list:
+ ndesk-dbus, ndesk-dbus-glib (external dependency)
- good from a security point of view
- need to be in a mono-specific section of the external dependencies
(because of the special rules about depending on mono)
=> accept
Hmm, I wonder what "special rules" those would be?
Given Mono's encumbrance on Microsoft's poisonous "Intellectual Monopoly"®, that statement is both intriguing and terrifying.
More Intellectual Insanity
Thu, 10/04/2008 - 11:05pm — HomerUMG Says Throwing Away Promo CDs is Illegal. Electronic Frontier Foundation
UMG seems to think that the "promotional use only" label somehow gives it "eternal ownership" over the CD. While this might make sense to a goblin living in Harry Potter's world, it's not the law under the Copyright Act. According to the first sale doctrine, once a copyright owner has parted with ownership of a CD, book, or DVD, whether by sale, gift, or other disposition, they may not control further dispositions of that particular copy (including throwing it away). It's thanks to the first sale doctrine that libraries can lend books, video rental stores can rent DVDs, and you can give a CD to a friend for their birthday. It's also the reason you can throw away any CD that you own.
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