a US federal appeals court has overturned a previous ruling and found that source code enjoys First Amendment protection. Of course this means that it is protected speech – which means that certain Crypto regs aren’t constitutional. Story via Wired News.
Finally!
I can start my new day when the clock rolls over here, not in California. California’s great and all, but midnight comes that much earlier here.
Thru
MetaFilter: Michael Moore apologizes to Elian Gonzalez. It’s about time someone did.
Kottke
makes a very good point. If MS is broken up you get 2-5 little Microsofts running around, each of which will own some killer technologies that, if anything, are under-exploited now. Imagine if a Word group wanted to push to make their underlying text engine the standard, integrated into anything and everything. Like that, x 10.
I’m not
going to talk about the Microsoft decision cause it’s just too boring. But MSFT deserves what it gets. It has nothing to do with quality – it’s about denying others the ability to build quality to compete with you.
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