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Comment Re: I am surprised it took so long ... (Score 1) 17

Why do people talk about copyright that much.

Because all the code we write is copyrighted by default. It is an important aspect of our craft. If you do not consider yourself a craftsman, as a programmer then you are just a code monkey.

Good luck proving Microsoft is using it in some closed component!

They used a lot of BSD, but that was noticed. The entire Windows 2000 source code was leaked, so it wasn't hard to check if open source was used (just time consuming).

Nowadays Microsoft contributes to open source because they want people to use Azure Cloud.

Comment Re:They killed dbrand's companion cube cover (Score 1) 36

Valve had to defend. Otherwise they lose all rights to that product for good.

Nonsense. You don't have to defend your copyright to retain it.

At worst, they can lose the Trademark, if it no longer identifies the original owner in common usage (which makes sense, because of the purpose of the Trademark). They still retain the copyright and all other relevant intellectual property.

Comment Re:How hard is it to just create jobs ? (Score 1) 169

That is an old criticism of the WPA, but it doesn't seem to be accurate. From the Wikipedia article:

"Many complaints were recorded from private industry at the time that the existence of WPA works programs made hiring new workers difficult. The WPA claimed to counter this by keeping hourly wages well below private wages and encouraging relief workers to actively seek private employment and accept job offers if they got them"

Comment Re:Probably people entirely disillusioned (Score 1) 169

The world is an extremely confusing place for people who don't understand statistics. The best they can do is find someone they trust to interpret the statistics (reality) for them. Then groups accumulate around self-styled experts, and the groups fight each other.

All because they skipped math class.

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