Yeah, you need a lawyer to understand something like the BSD license:

Yeah, but there's no list of accepted licenses, so I could just wait for someone to reuse my code, and then sue them "yeah, that was released under MCFSL (My Crappy Free Software License), which requires you to [insert really annoying requirement that you want to avoid here]".

But what happens when some troll comes around, saying you used their code without permission, and violated his rights as an author?
I mean, troll like that are bound to start appearing, that's why we should specify licenses in the first place. To make others certain we're not that sort of troll.

I think he's talking about the source code, and security by obscurity, NOT keeping his passwords secret.

Github needs to specify a "default license". If no license is specified, then XXX license applies (for example: BSD/MIT).
That may sound like imposing something on users, but remember that github give you a free account for public repositories for FLOSS stuff. If you specify no license, it's not legally propietary, so, it would make sense for them to do so.

So?
There's no practical gaming use for a kinect on a PC, yet hundreds of developers still use it for research, etc. Why can't I used my PS3 to research and try new stuff on my shiny cell processor?

Until you purchase a game that requires an updated OS. As if that didn't ever happen on a Sony console.
Or, until you want to play online.

What keeps Sony from changing that in a few years? I mean, does anyone remember the "Other OS" feature?

I've never understood why there's so much support to such a sexist group. I'm sure if I made a group "Python for men", or "Python for whites" I'd end up in jail (or maybe just really beaten up).
But "Ruby for girls", which focuses on helping women (without any rational reason for it's sexism), is all so popular.

Well, you know, there are all kind of fetishes!

Could you name these "small companies" that the EFF is targeting? I've only come across DRM-enforcers, record companies, and similar very large corporations.

James Login, si that you in an undercover account?
Thanks for the sincere answer!

I live in Argentina. Our economy sucks, we can barely get foreign currencies if we want to live the country, we can't import almost anything, and we've like a millon of other really sucky problems.

But here, we only patent inventions, not ideas, and that's the one (and only) thing that makes me proud about this so very problematic country.

We don't you guys learn from us!!

Java 6 bytecode runs perfectly fine on JRE7

Support contract? Updates for the JDK are freeware, and the there's always OpenJDK.

By developing OS-specific ways to retrieve that information? They already do this for plenty of others things (most low level APIs).