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  1. @rgov (Sure. Similarly, I think patents make sense, but terms are too long in the tech world and the threshold of originality is too low.) 13 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  2. @rgov (and in this case, Sun seemed to think it was a dick move but not unethical *enough* to go to war; though this overgeneralizes a bit) 17 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  3. @rgov some dick moves should still be legal. forking in OSS is usually a dick move, but sometimes upstream is a dick and it needs to happen 18 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  4. @rgov True, although Sun apparently did not like it but was not planning to sue them - it was Oracle, not the inventors, who went to war 21 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  5. @rgov BSD, GNU didn't need to copy Unix APIs, but the world is arguably a better place because they're in a family of compatibility. 23 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  6. @rgov True. But Google wanted compatibility with existing libraries, and I think the difference is too subtle to be a matter of law. 24 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  7. @rgov (Patents have a similar problem, but, as the judge said, they are significantly more time limited.) 25 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  8. @rgov (which is usually better anyway), but you can't work around API copyright without defeating the purpose by breaking compatibility. 26 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  9. @rgov To me the difference is that you can "work around" copying most things by doing the work and writing your own version 27 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  10. @rgov [..] not to unilaterally reward inventors. 30 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  11. @rgov At the risk of trotting out something tired, copyright exists to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, [..] 31 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  12. @rgov Do you think the world would be better off if AT&T/SCO/Novell/whoever had had a monopoly on Unix, or Netscape on JavaScript? 33 minutes ago via Echofon in reply to rgov
  13. @rgov bsd gnu linux JScript freeglut libedit wine cocotron dolphin... what do they have in common? ;p about 1 hour ago via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to rgov
  14. I should clean up the output of pdftotext and see what actual textual differences exist. about 5 hours ago via Tweetbot for iOS
  15. C11 is now available from ANSI for a reasonable price: webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.a… (still not much point using it over the latest draft) about 5 hours ago via Tweetbot for iOS