Because most of the packages that do something useful involve interaction with the OS.

Sandboxing the python runtime, say, means breaking most of the packages python developers take for granted, no?

...the real reason this got cleared is that MS assured the Indian government that all Nokia phones in India would have a backdoor accessible by the Indian government, like they demanded from BlackBerry?

Alicia would like your takedown notice to investigate. (Please do let the world know the results.)

Povinator - do you have a copy of the DMCA notice that can be put up? A copy that people can link to would be most useful.

Until Elsevier DMCAs you for the preprint. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

Turns out they lied: they will DMCA you putting up a preprint. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

They go after preprints. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

This claim is false. Elsevier send DMCA notices for preprints. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

Until they DMCA you for the preprint, of course. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

This claim is false: they go after preprints.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

I have asked Alicia Wise of Elsevier for an explanation, after her claim that they never do this.

They have.

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4527505&cid=45622313

But Alicia Wise, Director of Access & Policy at Elsevier, says that couldn't possibly have happened!

I've called it to her attention. Possibly she will even respond! Who knows?

Or the Chronicle, at least: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/posting-your-latest-article-you-might-have-to-take-it-down/48865