First off: Apple is only having people remove the apps in countries where the copyright is valid. Remember - U.S. public domain is not valid everywhere. I believe that copyright law is largely made of feces just as much as the next programmer, but this is not surprising.

Secondly: The article makes no mention of whether or not Apple is removing apps which use the word "Memory" outside of the context of the puzzle game for which Ravensburger holds the copyright. At least in U.S. copyright law, context and usage play important parts.

This would be a useful place to practice skeptical thinking. Why is Gamasutra writing this article? Why did they leave out these details? I would wager that the answer to these questions is, "To stir up shit."

Yeah, but unless it has been within the last month or two that this has happened, it's still not great. Travelling between Ohio and Indiana, there is a pretty long stretch of no 3G access on my phone, and my map just listed blank nothingness. If you're using the Google Navigation tool, it really should just pre-cache the entire map to your destination.

...is that Facebook is actually having to deal with the consequences of their shady shenanigans!

...people have been thinking that the past was the "golden era", and that the people of the past were so much better.

I'll agree that it's a poor analogy. But what I'm saying is more equivalent to asking the teacher to invent a new medium, like the soft part of feathers to paint on ceramic or something.

Still, I think that telling teachers that they have to invent their own exercises is a poor choice, since it's hard to make good exercises. And it's really easy to make bad, poorly-defined ones.

You're calling people "faggot" on the internet. I feel very bad for your parents. If I ever meet them, I will commiserate with them about how poorly their son or daughter has turned out.

Just like how Computer Science professors should all invent their own languages so that students can't just copy solutions from the internet?

...frequently, corporations will hire security experts to see how easy it is to penetrate the building's security. Usually, a combination of people holding doors open and looking like a utility worker will get people in. This is just the version of that for the future, using technology.

They're just degrading service, rather than blocking it. If you degrade service, people will naturally move away because they will think it is the service's fault, not the government's fault.

I agree that it is stupid. That's why I possess virulent hatred for "OMG CLOUD EVERYTHING!".

Well, a lot of articles on "how to make money with Open Source" mention using Software-as-a-Service, which is what a cloud app is. That's what I was trying to get at with my comment - that makes sense on one level for Open Source, as a way to make money. On the other hand, I have a virulent hatred for the push toward cloud apps which has been going on for years.

...it's not a subscription-based model like the new Microsoft Office products. SICK BURN.

Yes, that's what I was implying. This also means it is important to have American antivirus companies around too, because there is a lot of cybercrime in Russia.

If I remember correctly, Flame was first identified by Kapersky, a Russian company. In this age wherein the US Government has a cyber-warfare division, it seems as though a large amount of the interesting, practical work in Computer Security is moving to Russia.

So instead of having migration costs, just charge your customers for your migration! Think about it - if you go to the bank, the teller tells you that it will cost you $2,000 to withdraw money because the system in which they store your account info is still on Windows ME! It sounds glorious. I am doing this immediately.

Oh, wait, no. I only work on ancient systems. Whoops.