oops - deleted the second half as I posted... This is an appeals court for Florida so the precedent here is only for that portion of Florida that the appeals court covers, or maybe even all of FLorida, but to the rest of the country it means nothing at all.

No, lower courts do not set legal precedent.

Spoken as one who has never worked in an IT department. IT departments are generally understaffed to being with and the people in them are not exactly overpaid. So while you want your new phone to be supported, where does the time and training for it come from? If you really want to use it, you should be the one making the case, because otherwise you are just asking a bunch of overworked and underpaid people to voluntarily make their own lives miserable. If what you say was the truth then it would be easy to get management to send everyone in IT out for training or to hire in a new person with those skills, but that just never happens.

So you pit your lawyer, whom you pay for out of your own pocket, against the school's lawyer who is likely on retainer, and pay to fight when the law is against you? Yeah, that is some great advise!

There are good companies and bad companies. In good companies you are appreciated and promoted. In bad companies you bide your time while looking for another job. Yes that takes and while and sucks in a bad economy, but would you rather have no job?

This is actually very simple. You work for a company. They asked you to do something. You did it. Therefore it falls within your employment unless you have a contract that specifically lays out that you will be paid extra for this. Also, I hate to tell you this, but junior programmer is a lower paygrade in the industry than senior SA. If you get a lawyer, as has been suggested above, expect to be out of a job and to never get another cent from that company, but you will still have to pay the lawyer. Now what you might want to do is negotiate to do the work on company time with all code being open source and donated - GET THAT IN WRITING! Think of this as a great resume-building task and turn it into a positive for both yourself and the community because you will never get paid.

I did hot my kids - I think twice each. After that they knew that I would consider it and I thought that it would no longer help. I do fall quite to the right of Obama, but I do not view this as left or right. Parents do not have to be educated. Parents need to let kids know that they expect them to do well - that they expect homework to be done before anything else gets done. The reports sent home from school can tell you if the student is doing well and doing homework - you do not need to know the subjects. In an extreme case a kid that was doing badly in school but was a naturally talented athlete was brought into my cousin's house (left of Obama) and treated as a son. When the expectation of good grades was established the child started working harder to get good grades and took pride when he did better. When he went back to visit his real parents and told them of his success with the grades they did not care at all. Fortunately that kid got his grades up high enough that with his athletic ability he was able to get into the local state college on an athletic scholarship and is doing well in both athletics and academics now.

It depends on what the teacher wants to say. It might be that the teacher is purposely teaching them this way then moving on to algebra and wants the student to know the hard way before learning the easy way. That is how I learned and while I do not know if they still teach kids that way today (my kids did not learn that way) it is possible.

Ah I get it - that's the joke! Government investment helping education. LOL!

Must be nice to be in an area where you can do that for $65k. Here on Long Island, you need about $200,000 to hit that mark. That is not a number I made up, nor is it a scientific study, but rather based on that exact question put forth on a morning radio station a couple of years ago. The decision was that the definition of true middle class was the ability to own am average house (4 bedrooms, 1/4 acre), pay bills, put away for college, for retirement, be able to take a one week non-exotic vacation yearly and get one new car every 3 years (on LI you need one car per working adult - crappy public transit so this mean replace cars every 6 years) and have a few months reserve in case of job loss, etc. Those under $200k/year were unable to do this.

Working in a 6-man shop and working on a 5000 employee corp are two totally different animals. In the 5000 person corp, helping people to do their job more effectively might just mean locking everything down to stop hackers from attacking so that every can actually work.

The whole point of the GPL is to allow code to be Free-As-In-Speech, not Free-As-In-Beer. If you did not get that from the beginning, you do not get the whole FOSS movement.

They are not selling it as their own. If you look at their site, there is even a direct link back to the drupal.org site where the OP released the code. This is a case of the OP freaking out without even bothering to do some basic research as to what the GPL allows and what the site claims to be selling.

An obvious troll. In order to become management you have had to prove yourself over the course of many years. While you may think those above you are useless, they would not be there had they not done what you did first and for probably longer than you have.

Actually the objective point of copyright was to balance the rights of the author (copyright holder) to enrich himself from his creation against the rights of the public to have every work in the Public Domain. Unfortunately this balance has tipped far in the direction of the copyright holder at the expense of the public. The public need to be educated that having works in the Public Domain is their right and is a good thing.