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I would guess because he developed his solution while at work and his employment terms require all inventions are assigned to the company. Hence it's not his to license.

How do people in the Netherlands feel about the notion of "common carrier"? http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html Is common carrier a useful concept for society? What…

Yes. I think some of the other publishers are more egregious than Elsevier. Everything is bundled together as you say and access is monopolised that way. But things have to start s…

If there was a generic utpclient/utpserver pair of applications that I could use to proxy non-uTP applications, as there is with CCP, I'd try using uTP/LEDBAT. But to my knowledge,…

Mathematics Departments are going to be the heros in lowering the costs to access scholarly journals, in all disciplines. It has to start somewhere. Low cost, online education, whi…

I'll stick with CurveCP, thanks. It works, it has the added "perk" of encryption, and it's not tied to a single application, like uTP. Then again, if you tie something into an appl…

Bert, you forgot epigenetics, specifically methylation. Or maybe that was intentional, since technically this is "code" that is passed outside of DNA. But it forms a significant an…

I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data? CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes…

What does your last paragraph have to do with the clause you excerpted? This clause appears to have nothing to do with the company suing you. It appears to deal with the reverse. W…

Do you think Dragon's Den does this? Imagine if every reality TV actor had to agree to give a portion of their future earnings to the network, in the event they become very success…

I'm at the circus graveyard right now and there is no headstone for Morty Smith! I would post a picture but "I'm going old school" and left my phone at home. ;) You gotta love this…

Isn't it "slow" because it dates back to the practice of flying cargos of checks across the country to be cleared by other banks? For each check, that process could take up to a fe…

If others can replicate what the author did, then it might rise to the level of "exhaustively researched". If you are a Comcast customer, try to replicate the experiment yourself. …

If Lincoln was as honest and ethical as history tells us he was, I doubt he would support a guy like Zuckerberg, and certain other backers of FB with whom FB users are not so famil…

Gotta love the way this is written. Well done. As for the story, it appears President Lincoln understood the sensibility of decentralisation. Each town manages its own Gazette. The…

To understand why MySpace was designed like it was, perhaps it's helpful to look at the man behind the orginal MySpace: it's the guy behind Demand Media. They own the domain name r…

True, especially the part about the need for great writing. Unfortunately, re: your first point, that's a large audience, one which advertisers are happy to target. And I'm not sur…

I have had a special love for music all my life. But I sometimes wish I did not know what I now know about the Recording Industry in America and how they do "business". I simply do…

I'm a Journalist Trying To Come To Grips With Technology That Is Making My Profession Irrelevant

I use them constantly but almost always BRE. And I'm still discovering new tricks using only BRE. I guess I'm too dumb to use anything more clever. I'll never be a Larry Wall. I st…

I'll bet he was referring to code he wrote himself. It's slightly more complicated (pun intended) when it's someone else's code you are negating.

Gotcha. ;)

Nope. Quite the contrary. I was trying to avoid bringing the strange sentiment to which you are referring to the fore. Mere mention of those initials causes an adverse reaction in …