Dear Microsoft
Wednesday, January 30, 2002Hans Reiser comments on DOJ v. Microsoft:
There is only one characteristic that necessarily defines the separation of a software product, and that is the license.
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Secret source code can be an essential facility the equal of putting a combination lock on every bolt in a car, and then declaring the combination to be a trade secret.
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Declare that software is per se separable where source code is available. Declare source code to be an essential facility. Return copyright and patent practices to their historical roots, and require that information created be made public if it is to be protected.
2:05:37 PM #
categories: Dear Microsoft, Law
Dear Microsoft: make it stop please!. "I wanted to say thank you very much for letting me test drive a version of Microsoft Office for the latest Apple operating system, OS X. Office X has a really nice interface, and it looks like it has lots of nifty tools. But after playing around on it for a couple of days, I have to conclude that I'm not interested." More at BusinessWeek. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
My sentiments exactly. c.f.
1:36:59 PM #
categories: Dear Microsoft