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European Commission paints itself in ACTA corner-> 0

Submitted by Halo1 on Sunday May 01 2011, @10:30AM

Halo1 writes "Last week, the European Commission published a rebuttal to an extensive and strongly condemning opinion document about ACTA by prominent European Academics. Ante Wessels from the FFII went through the Commission's reply and discovered that after correcting the mistakes they made, they actually confirm the opinion they were trying to refute. The Commission primarily appears to suffer from a lack of reading comprehension, amnesia regarding what it said earlier, and not being fully aware of its competences."
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iPhone SDK Agreement Shuts Out HyperCard Clone-> 0

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Halo1

on Monday May 17 2010, @02:26PM

Halo1 writes "Demonstrating it's not just about Flash, Apple has officially rejected for the first time another alternative iPhone development environment following its controversial iPhone SDK Agreement changes. Even though RunRev proposed to retool its HyperCard-style development environment to directly expose all of the iPhone OS' APIs, Steve Jobs still rejected their proposal. The strength of RunRev's business case, with a large scale iPad deployment project in education hinging on the availability of their tool, does not bode well for projects that have less commercial clout. Salient point: at last February's shareholders' meeting, Jobs went on the record saying that something like HyperCard on the iPad would be great "but someone would have to create it"."
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Company aims to patent security patches->

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Jonas Maebe

on Friday June 08 2007, @04:31AM

Jonas Maebe writes "Someone thought up another way to profiteer from the software patent system: when a security hole is discovered, they'll try to patent the fix in order to collect money when the affected vendors close the hole in their product.. The company in question is not shy about its intentions: Intellectual Weapons will only consider vulnerabilities in high profile products from vendors with deep pockets. Let's be thankful for yet another way software patents are used to promote science and the useful arts."
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