Then they came for the Alans Cox...

There are many, many more students than there are scientists. This matters because many jurisdictions in Europe and Asia require undergraduate students to produce published or publishable work as part of their degree requirements.

Ahh right, the old "exploitation" line - fine, what are these "impoverished" people going to do if you force Facebook to withdraw their line of work? Magically go and get a higher paying job somewhere? I don't think so.

No, its not hypocritical at all - its software freedom, they wanted an alternative and so someone started to develop one.

Only here on Slashdot could that possibly be twisted to be a bad thing.

Yup, non-story really - Facebook manage to screen all of their photos and images (admittedly its not pre-screening), and they do it on a much lower payscale than this bloke assumes.

No, it wasnt to make violations of the kernels license harder to detect, it was to stop the BusyBox copyright holders from having sway over third party applications through their "compliance" requirements (basically they only allowed you to be relicensed for BusyBox if you also came into compliance with everything else, not just BusyBox). Tim Bird had a legitimate complaint - most kernel developers, Linus included, is fairly ambivalent to most kernel license violations.

Abu Hamza hasn't visited the US either, yet he's soon to be extradited there from the UK.

The same goes for Babar Ahmad.

About about a dozen others.

Prior visit to the US is not a requirement.

If the goal was indeed to get him to the US, it would be easier to extradite him from the UK due to the special extradition treaties in effect between the US and the UK.

This won't be reopened, as despite Ms Roses position regarding the Judges comments about the treaty conventions, the Judges are allowed to test the validity of the arguments presented by both sides, so they need to test the defences assertion that the warrant is illegal or unlawful - that means referring to past cases and decisions to determine consistency. Ms Rose doesn't have an argument there.

Thats interesting, considering the heritage of the works at the core of this case - or are we limiting the topic to physical goods only?