Squatter, or just extreme slacker?
When I first reached out to google for the definition of
squatter, I got a bit confused as to where the illegality lay[gr.?]. The definition of squatter
hereseems to express two types, those with legal, and illegal. When I switched the search to
cybersquatter, I then understood more about where the laws start, (though seems a amendment may be needed) here in the United States,
Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act passed in 1999, an amendment to the
Trademark Act 1946 also known as the
Lanham Act.
Where am I going with this? How does one determine good faith? How do you differentiate between a person who might struggle to get it up (specially if a deadline looms overhead, further if that deadline is tightened) and one who is squatting maliciously, awaiting a time when they can resell the slot to someone else who has developed the application, put in the sweat, time, thought, tears, hours, etc...
To end with a wee bit of entertainment amidst all this legal jumbo-gumbo, figured I might throw a little head-nod to J.R.
Bob "Dobbs" (not MS's
failed project). Slacking is an artform, a religion, one that many take quite seriously. So much so they used it in the naming of a Linux
distro. Slacker? Or Ill-memes willful disconsolation?