For example: Assange claimed for years, Wikileaks contributors are protected by the Swedish law, he even threatened to sue anyone who tried to expose a Wikileaks source.

Source? I don't remember that, and it's hard to Google for his past opinions on the matter due to recent developments.

It is possible that On2 didn't join MPEG-LA so they could be patent trolls later. If so, it would be ironic that their patents would then be used for good by Google.

Similarly, it is also possible that On2 didn't join MPEG-LA so that they would be more attractive to being bought be another company who wanted to acquire patents on some part of H.264.

I have no idea how likely either scenario is, but they don't seem totally implausible.

so you make the same salary as her, you you call her pay "crap"? or are you expecting a 55 year old programmer to keep getting guaranteed raises with guaranteed job security just like a 55 year old teacher?

what percentage of the country, given a number in MPG, can convert it to GP100M? even if you give them a calculator, i'd still bet it's pretty damn low. and even if they can convert it, most would never realize that it would be important to consider GP100M rather than MPG. so how is it a red herring?

And what if you correct for some obvious confounding variables, such as IQ or parents' socioeconomic status? I don't have the data, I'm honestly asking... because I would expect that to cover most of the difference.

you're citing a fiction book as evidence?

That's kind of already how it's done (not explicitly of course)... And that still doesn't get rid of the incentive to keep your data to yourself. Because then you can publish about the data and the analysis, and get citations for both.

please look at the data again... yes it is biased towards old people, but it is not exclusively old people.

Look at it from the perspective of a developer. Let's say I want to contribute code to Firefox under the GPL. My two options are:

1. Dual license it under the MPL as well, giving up some freedoms
2. Fork Firefox

Because option 2 is not really practical, everyone effectively plays by the rules of option 1.

The objective is to limit your freedoms more than the GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses permit. That's always the objective when new licenses are made.

i started using mozilla at version 0.8, which was released february 14, 2001. that was the point at which it was better than IE6 for me. ymmv.

I'll deposit mine in Kinakuta.

or, they waited until she died of cancer before they awarded the nobel prize.

they should have tried a legal ddos first.

more specifically, the hypothesis is that cancer is caused by stem cells. http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12202589 is a decent popular science article.