One thing that regularily gets dropped is that the shopping onebox coincided with a massive update of the search algorithm that placed scompeting shopping search sites way at the back of the result page.
Each one of them would probably have been fine, but the combination was uncompetitive in the eyes of the commission.
Now, I hate the NSA as much as any other average commenter, but I can see how not destroying evidence would lead to unaccessible information:
The NSA is simply tapping anything and everything they can get their hands on.. The data goes into a system and is analyzed. Things that look "interesting" are kept, the rest is deleted (to keep the storage system from growing indefinitely).
You'd be pretty hard-pressed for storage space if you had to save a backup of every phone call and every email ever...
Emails that $Service is going to start charging soon are as old as the internet. I remember that ICQ (back when people used ICQ) suffered from several such rumour-rounds.
This has nothing to do with what's in the GPL.
Cisco is guilty of large-scale commercial copyright-infringement.
The talks were simply of the type "If you do X, we will retroactively grant you a license and won't sue your sorry asses". The FSF could have demanded that the CFO of Cisco does a handstand while being naked.
A compliance officer is an obvious demand; would you trust a company who has again and again violated your license?
Telling the past customers is a requirement of the GPL; you can't use the freedoms granted by the GPL if you don't know that the code you are using is licensed under the GPL.
And it serves as a nice deterent for future infringers: it's damn embarassing to have to tell all your customers that you are a lying thief.
It has something to do with the definition of privacy.
Here in europe we have the right of personality. You are not allowed to take pictures of people without their consent, even in a public place.
One thing that's missing in the reports about this...
One thing that regularily gets dropped is that the shopping onebox coincided with a massive update of the search algorithm that placed scompeting shopping search sites way at the back of the result page.
Each one of them would probably have been fine, but the combination was uncompetitive in the eyes of the commission.
Not so far-fetched
Now, I hate the NSA as much as any other average commenter, but I can see how not destroying evidence would lead to unaccessible information:
The NSA is simply tapping anything and everything they can get their hands on.. The data goes into a system and is analyzed. Things that look "interesting" are kept, the rest is deleted (to keep the storage system from growing indefinitely).
You'd be pretty hard-pressed for storage space if you had to save a backup of every phone call and every email ever...
Nice but not innovative
It's nice, but not innovative. I remember that O'Reilly hat the same offering in 2004.
Emails that $Service is going to start charging soon are as old as the internet. I remember that ICQ (back when people used ICQ) suffered from several such rumour-rounds.
Re: This is genius
That's a great idea! The guy who came up with the idea can thus enjoy a movie at the cinema (if he doesn't buy popcorn)!
This has nothing to do with what's in the GPL.
Cisco is guilty of large-scale commercial copyright-infringement.
The talks were simply of the type "If you do X, we will retroactively grant you a license and won't sue your sorry asses". The FSF could have demanded that the CFO of Cisco does a handstand while being naked.
A compliance officer is an obvious demand; would you trust a company who has again and again violated your license?
Telling the past customers is a requirement of the GPL; you can't use the freedoms granted by the GPL if you don't know that the code you are using is licensed under the GPL.
And it serves as a nice deterent for future infringers: it's damn embarassing to have to tell all your customers that you are a lying thief.
Xavier Naidoo unknown?!
He is a mayor star in europe.
Just so you know, Mike
There exist jurisdictions which do not follow US law.
In most european countries, you retain the right of personality.
It has something to do with the definition of privacy.
Here in europe we have the right of personality. You are not allowed to take pictures of people without their consent, even in a public place.
It is obvious you don't "get" the european mindset
It's not about embarassing photos; it's about photos period.
Here in Old Europe privacy is valued way higher than in the US.