It’s A Free-For-All
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Coming from the camp that “software wants to be free”, this is something that just caught my eye. I just wanted to post it here as a reference, for now. With my laptop still in the shop, I need a way to bookmark sites, somehow (other than del.icio.us). I haven’t had any time to look into this deeper or even think about it any more than having a first impression about it.
My only question about this is “where” in the Terms of Service is this coming from? When was this changed? If this was in the TOS before the SexGen bed code theft case, the case would have never went as far as it did. Or is this part of the TOS that covers the open source viewer software?
I’ll update this post (or write a new one) once I look into this further. By the way, just in case you’re thinking there’s some connection to the site that posted this… there’s not! I actually “just noticed” the site that I am linking this to.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
It’s always been in the TOS, as far as I know. I just noticed it. This just applies to patents though - the sexgen bed case involves trademark and copyright claims.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Like I said, I haven’t looked into this, any deeper, and I don’t claim to know the exact differences between patent, trademark, and copyright laws. At first glance, that was what I was thinking, though. After I have some more coffee, I’ll think about this, more.
September 27th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
It’s a coffee kind of subject, definitely.