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Is it a settled argument that the US statutory termination right applies to copyrights granted by the common open source licenses? Could you maybe point to a good legal discussion …

People obtaining the show from other sources before it is released on Netflix might be a reason for the show not doing well enough on Netflix to be worth picking up. Plus the marke…

I'm curious whether the Retpoline mitigation will still be necessary/recommended for user applications (that don't operate as a JIT or interpreter) once the kernel and CPU mitigati…

I just tried this again on the German Netflix website: Danish was listed and selectable for the audio track and subtitle of "Troll hunters" and "Tarzan and Jane" after switching th…

I suppose this is because they are afraid to upset certain segments of their users. In the German Netflix you'll often see angry comments in the review section of any show that isn…

In Germany the Netflix app shows different available audio tracks and subtitles depending on the user profile language, at least for the "Netflix Originals". Have you tried setting…

The battery comparison with the 2015 MacBook Pro is not really fair, because he turns the brightness "all the way" up for his benchmark, even though the new models have screens wit…

If I understand "if they pre-install Google’s apps on any of their models, they must commit to install only Google’s standard version of Android on each and every one of their mode…

The legal question is whether the exclusivity terms in the licensing deals are anti-competitive given Google's dominant market share in Europe. "handset-makers that wish to pre-ins…

An alternate point of view by the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21697193-european-com...

* no one can sue

If you "change the names and wording" you're actually copying and making a modification. However, if by pure chance you came up with some say detective story that has a plot very s…

Copyright and patents are not "fundamentally the same thing". A copyright gives you the right to exclude others from copying a work. A patent gives you more than that right, it giv…

*can be commoditized

I'm less curious about infrastructure that be commoditized and more about things like shared source code and access to subject-matter experts working on various teams at Google.

Will the non-Google Alphabet companies still have access to Google's software engineering infrastructure?