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- fireashes, on 08/14/2008, -1/+12The news is great but the article is crap.
Dugg for being open source. - CATSCEO2, on 08/14/2008, -1/+10...failure
- bieber, on 08/14/2008, -3/+11What? The US Justice system does something that makes sense? I call shenanigans.
- Gomek, on 08/14/2008, -1/+6This is great news, I agree, but a better article on the same subject already made it to the front page hours ago.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Court_Violating_Copyleft ... - Myztry, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Despite being the biggest whinger about Open Source licensing and how it devalues IP, Microsoft is one of the biggest licensors of give away products. Internet Explorer, DirectX, etc have been given away for a long time.
Open Source grants more rights, but otherwise what's the difference than many commercial licenses? Why are they even debating the copyright basis of Open Source variety licenses. Lack of lobbyi$t participation? - sethpr, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2I, for one, welcome our newest licenses overlords...
oh wait.... - AsusMobo, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2Darl McBride sucks
- Atomic1fire, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1because someone infridged on a opensource license.
If I understand right, this group of hobbyists worked on an opensource program for working with the decoderchips in model trains, the company that they are suing or whatever, infridged on the license by using portions of the program, without following the terms of the license, the court made it official that you have to follow the terms of an opensource license, more then likely because its the terms set by the copyright holder, and therefor you must follow it to avoid copyright infridgement - Myztry, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Yes. But they are were going broad into other licenses. Let's compare directx. You can freely distribute it, make other works that use the code (indirectly).
Open source isn't really different then others except for the terms. If they were debating the terms, then surely it should have been just for the license involved, on the not the psuedo-category. - rjw057, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0This ruling is a real step forward in assisting business confidence confirming that OS and CC licencing are legal. Over the past many years there has been much misconception over the legality of these licences and it is about time the Courts clarified where these stand and also to confirm that breach of copyleft is also an offence. We use alot of OSS in our business and it really assists us - with no risk. http://www.redballoondays.com.au/
- nexusza, on 08/15/2008, -1/+0Apples and ranges. DirectX is not open-source hence you can't take the actual CODE out of the DirectX API's to use in your own grpahics API. Open Source means you can view the source code that makes the software tick. DirectX is an API meaning developers can use it without seeing its source code to produce graphically intensive software. Your analogy is non-sensical
- gcnaddict, on 08/14/2008, -2/+1I love reading things (a lot, actually) but it gets very annoying (I mean very) when people (like you) use (abuse) parenthesis (or parens or whatever you want to call them).
- phoomp, on 08/14/2008, -2/+1There should be a filter that takes a first post with the word 'first' in it, and moves that post to the end?
- TTURabble, on 08/14/2008, -5/+0...post
- Scottc320, on 08/14/2008, -21/+1...first
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