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Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement 163

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 20, 2009 @05:12AM from the backlashed-into-submission dept.

mcmoodle writes "Bozeman, Montana has decided that they don't want applicant personal information after all, citing a worldwide backlash on the issue: '"Effective at noon today the city of Bozeman permanently ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites," said Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager. ... Kukulski says after a 90 minute staff meeting held earlier today, officials decided asking applicants to provide their passwords to sites such as Facebook or MySpace, "exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." Kukulski apologized for the negative impact the issue has generated from news organizations and blogs around the world.' I didn't have any doubt this would be immediately squashed. Now I'm just curious as to how many personal accounts they actually went through!"

Comment Re:What's the problem (Score 1) 336

by klegan on Tuesday April 26, 2005 @12:43PM (#12349192) Attached to: Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired?

Not if the original copyright owner sold the new owners the code under a different licence (which ONLY the copyright holder is able to do). The new owner would have the rights to the code without the GPL license. Then they can make their version closed source and wouldn't have to contribute back any updates they make. The original GPL version still exists and can be modified by others but the new owners would have a copy of the source code under a different license and can make their version closed source.

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