To be fair though I don't think Facebook is bound legally to internet principles. Besides, Google opened up the federation protocol of Wave and a bunch of other technologies, and look where that got 'em!

No, but it can print the individual parts that make up itself.

Most average slashdot summaries (even including summaries that don't include statistics) are less confusing and ambiguous than this summary. But that's only if we are talking about _average_ summaries, not _typical_ summaries.

7" LCD is convenient - but I'd have to know how many sheets-of-glass thick it is before I'd consider buying one.

I'm not sure it's really a case of Mozilla trying to trick anyone... after all, they happily (well, probably not _happily_) admit that they aren'tfastyet

I'm guessing it's because the real "hackers" don't accidentally click the send button.

Opera Software did great work lobbying against software patents in the campaigns on the EU software patents directive. Thanks Opera!.

Here's what I have already on them:

• Microsoft
• Free software distributors paying patent tax (all of which are to Microsoft)
• Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
• Novell-Microsoft patent deals
• Free software
• Free software projects harmed by software patents
• Mono and Moonlight

swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help welcome.

While verifying my sources just now, I found that Tim is, since February 2010, against software patents. Glad to hear it.

I've updated the wiki.

Tim's critical of software patents, but his position is that there's just an implimentation problem - with good tweaking it could work. Kinda disappointing that he's not pushing for abolition. Surprising too given his experience in web dev and XML. Related info:

• Tim Bray on software patents
• Google
• Webpage and web service patents
• XML patents

swpat.org is a publicly-editable wiki - help in expanding this info would be very welcome and useful.

Multi-touch has been invented many times. It was even publicly documented in 1985:Multi-touch prior art.

Here's what I've gathered so far about these:

• Nokia v. Apple (2010, USA)
• Apple v. HTC (2010, USA)
• Nokia
• Apple Inc.
• Patent non-aggression pacts (including the Sun-Microsoft 2004 deal)

swpat.org is a publicly editable wiki, help welcome.

Sorry to criticise people who are clearly on our side. The Wikileaks folk are great, and the job they were doing was great, and it will be great again when they start back up...

...but it was not a good idea for them to take all the leaked documents offline without notice in order to show their value so that people will donate. It was last year, probably December, and everything's still offline :-(

For one example, they published the only (at the time) big ACTA leak. (There's since been a bigger one, hosted elsewhere) Everyone was pointing to them, and they took their copy offline. To my amazement, no one had a back up, so us anti-ACTA campaigners simply lost the only leaked draft.

At the implementation level, it was a bad idea to simply cause all pages to give error 404. A page of "We need donations, we'll be back up when we get them" would have been better.

Lesson: take backups of important docs, even ones published by groups of good people.

> To say the ruling class owns the politicians is a circular statement.

You're assuming the politicians aren't puppets.

Look at ACTA. There's nothing in there for the citizenry.

And what do our representatives think is worth debatin? A: Whether instruments of infringement should be destroyed "promptly" (US/EU/Mex), or "without delay" (Canada), or whether a time shouldn't be specified (Aus). Wow, thanks guys.