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Randal Schwartz is a software programmer best known for his wildley popular O'Reilly books on the Perl programming language. Quite a few people, myself included, started their computer lives with a copy of Randal's classic, Learning Perl. He's also a friend of Steve's so I hope to be able to meet him some day. In any case, he was also involved in some serious legal problems with Intel in 1995. He didn't do very well. But the court of appeals has finally ruled on his appeal, and although the three convictions against him were basically upheld, he's not going to have to pay Intel the $70,000 restitution award. Slashdot has the story and a bunch of links. Pretty interesting case.
Randal Schwartz is a software programmer best known for his wildley popular O'Reilly books on the Perl programming language. Quite a few people, myself included, started their computer lives with a copy of Randal's classic, Learning Perl. He's also a friend of Steve's so I hope to be able to meet him some day. In any case, he was also involved in some serious legal problems with Intel in 1995. He didn't do very well. But the court of appeals has finally ruled on his appeal, and although the three convictions against him were basically upheld, he's not going to have to pay Intel the $70,000 restitution award. Slashdot has the story and a bunch of links. Pretty interesting case.
"This provoked Stallman into an extended rant against the whole idea of patenting software, and ended in him leaving the room to shout in the corridor while Professor Bill Cornish, who was chairing, tried to resume the discussion."Here is Stallman's homepage, and here is his must read distopian vision of the future that everyone used to laugh at, and that now, with the advent of the DMCA and things like CPRM, no one is laughing at anymore (disclaimer: he's no William Gibson or anything, but the writing style is not the point.) Dave's been doing some good digging into this area as well.
"This provoked Stallman into an extended rant against the whole idea of patenting software, and ended in him leaving the room to shout in the corridor while Professor Bill Cornish, who was chairing, tried to resume the discussion."Here is Stallman's homepage, and here is his must read distopian vision of the future that everyone used to laugh at, and that now, with the advent of the DMCA and things like CPRM, no one is laughing at anymore (disclaimer: he's no William Gibson or anything, but the writing style is not the point.) Dave's been doing some good digging into this area as well.
megnut @ knownow. That's some high profile geek team they've got over there.
megnut @ knownow. That's some high profile geek team they've got over there.
O'Reilly, maker of fine computer books with funny drawings of animals on the covers, is starting a weblog service.
O'Reilly, maker of fine computer books with funny drawings of animals on the covers, is starting a weblog service.
"Color geek extraordinaire Bruce Fraser gets to the bottom of rendering intents, and when to use each to get the best results." Some day I will learn about this stuff. Not today, though. Maybe one of you graphic designer types can tackle this.
"Color geek extraordinaire Bruce Fraser gets to the bottom of rendering intents, and when to use each to get the best results." Some day I will learn about this stuff. Not today, though. Maybe one of you graphic designer types can tackle this.