Posts made in March, 2005

Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6

Posted by Alex on 7 Mar, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://domai.com/news/2005/02february-04/cameraphones.html

Paranoid society

Nude woman, girls and photos at Domai, artistic Photos and Nude Art pics

Posted by Alex on 7 Mar, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://domai.com/news/2005/02february-04/

[Avert your eyes if you are easily offended- due to the side pictures] An interesting article pointing out the ridiculous paranoia over mobile phone photography

Posted by Alex on 7 Mar, 2005 in Articles | 0 comments

Some more background articles on the legal patents debate:
BBC
Computerworld.nz
tbray.org
Boston Herald (if you can’t get archive to work try here)

Groklaw – Software Patent Directive Passed as A-Item

Posted by Alex on 7 Mar, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050307095336843

Oh boy.. the European Parliament has gone and screwed things up big time. Software patents are bad! Read here or here if you’re not sure why.. Unfortunately these bureaucrats in Brussels don’t seem to grasp the real issues. If we allow software patents in Europe we effectively hand over control of all future technological developments in software to be driven by commercial profit motives rather than what is best for the people motives.

“I don’t know any other kind of intellectual property that is capable of getting both copyright and patent protection. These are designed for both different types of works: copyright is for more creative works, and patents are more for processes and methods…inventions. By giving software the double protection, the public’s card gets left behind.”

Bottom line, Copyright is for ideas. Patents are for the applications of ideas. If you allow patents on ideas you create legal and technical nightmares that make things much worse for joe public.

Imagine I have an idea for a computer program, then I write it without looking at what anyone else is doing (which I don’t have time or resource to do). Microsoft (or company X) could come along later, say “Hey that’s my idea” and shut you down as they have more money than you could ever spend defending yourself.
At least some companies like IBM [1], [2], [3] and to a lesser extent, Sun are making steps in the right direction and saying they won’t do this.

Bash by example, Part 2

Posted by Alex on 7 Mar, 2005 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash2.html

Handy guide to Bash, the Script Language used in Linux