Posts by sas

6 posts • joined Friday 9th March 2007 11:46 GMT

Posted in Shiny phones lead to rash of rash

Posted Thursday 16th October 2008 22:35 GMT

sas

Wallet of doom

So 30% of the population get a rash every time they open their wallet and get out some coins?

Posted in 'Tofu' license pits open source against meat

Posted Saturday 26th January 2008 19:02 GMT

sas

Restrictions only apply to downloading?

"By downloading ExtTLD from this website, you agree to the following terms and conditions."

Which suggests the additional terms only apply to whoever downloads the code from that site- they're the copyright holders so they're allowed to do this. However, since the actual code is LGPL once it's been given to someone they're free to distribute it without the additional restrictions.

Posted in So what's in a URL? The Reg URL?

Posted Friday 8th June 2007 16:45 GMT

sas

.co.uk

Another me too! I wasn't going to bother posting since I agree with nearly everyone else in voting for .co.uk, but decided to just in case you do a Blair.

Posted in Attempt to limit FOI will be heard again on Friday

Posted Tuesday 24th April 2007 10:29 GMT

sas

100% leakproof information

"It should quite clearly be protected under the current Act. However, inadvertently, someone may release it,"

And of course if this bill gets through that would obviously remove any possibility of the information inadvertently getting out. I'm trying desperately not to mention David Kelly.

Posted in DRM-free music: EMI calls the tune and Apple takes the credit

Posted Monday 9th April 2007 14:23 GMT

sas

Whats the problem?

You started with a bold statement that going EMI going DRM free would be "dangerous and potentially disastrous". Maybe you could explain why, since I really can't see what the problem is.

Posted in Management 'scared' by open source

Posted Friday 9th March 2007 12:19 GMT

sas

RTFL

If someone buys an expensive piece of proprietary software management and lawyers will spend ages poring over the contract/license which will be specific to that piece of software, especially if it's going to be sold on as part of a product. So why is it so difficult to read the license on open-source software?