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Can software code, and application programming interfaces in particular, be copyrighted? That is the question. Because the people you want deciding about code are nine (very) senior citizens
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The Republicans had made a good job to to set "their people" at this Court in outmanouvering the Democratic Party. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I worked on FreeType a decade ago, when Apple warned the project of the patents he had about font hinting...It became obvious we can not do 1 + 1 without infringement the patent!!!
And that's because those who approve patent request understand nothing but bureaucratic process...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Copyrighted, yes. Patented, no.
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Google today made available an iOS app for its Chrome Remote Desktop technology that allows you to access your computer from anywhere. Probably just VLC under the covers, but there you go
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Do you mean VNC? 
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Derp. Yeah.
Then again, maybe it's got VLC in there as well. Streaming music or something. 
TTFN - Kent
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While not a new concept, a new decentralized service is beta testing a peer-to-peer network that would "rent" unused capacity from your computer's hard drive as part of a cloud service to store files from other users. OK, never mind that Seagate guy. Problem solved.
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yikes, the legal minefield this jumps into spread-eagled, should have surely killed the project before it even starts.
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Mark Whitby, SVP of branded products at Seagate, walks us through the fascinating world of storage, warning us of the dangers of not producing enough data and introducing us to the concept of the Zettabyte. Well, maybe they could get busy then?
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Are they still in business? 
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Yes - making hype.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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"Our business is hype. And business is good."
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Tough voice coils.
I've got mine.
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Openness by itself does not yield more secure code, but a new dependence on open source by major software players could ensure more rigorous scrutiny. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." (except when they aren't)
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Bugs also become shallow when you race down the interstate at 90mph (145km/h)
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Quote: Credit Zemlin with jumping on Heartbleed fast. In the wake of the disaster, he quickly formed the Core Infrastructure Initiative and signed up Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Bloomberg, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, NEC, Qualcomm, Rackspace, Salesforce, and VMware -- all of which pledged to contribute $100,000 annually for a minimum of three years.
With those funds Zemlin has been able to "employ the Steves full time" (actually Dr. Henson and Andy Polyakov) to work on OpenSSL.
$2 million/year in guaranteed funding and they're only able to hire two full time developers. And I thought my employer's overhead rates stank. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Instead, blame developer laziness. But this can be fixed. "She's come undone"
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...do blame ads though. And trackers. And analytics.
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We've given her all we can. She canna hold it together any longer.
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The most popular language of 2014 was JavaScript, says the language index TIOBE. Meanwhile Java’s popularity hasn’t been this low since the dramatic arrival of Python in 2004. VB selected as "Miss Congeniality"
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PERL more than doubled in popularity according to TIOBE.
That is all. Nothing more needs to be said.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, PERL 6 is coming out real soon now (tm) 
TTFN - Kent
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Today, GitHub and Microsoft are making Visual Studio Community 2013 available as part of the GitHub Student Developer Pack. Free tools, now free
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GitHub is the home of a strong open source community, including hundreds of Microsoft projects
Hmm, there's over 1.1 million GitHub projects (reference[^]) and only several hundred Microsoft projects.
Should give Soma pause.
Marc
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