Date: 05/28/2004 10:40 AM
Name: dan wright (zap644@yahoo.com)
Subject: State Toughens Telecom Laws
I must be missing part of the story here ("State Toughens Telecom Laws," May 28, 2004). How is this such a bad thing for cellular companies? I've been screwed by Sprint, AT&T Wireless and Inphonic, and these regulations don't go far enough.
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Date: 05/28/2004 05:19 AM
Name: Mike Potter (mpotter28@sympatico.ca)
Subject: Europe Braces for Patent Rules
Patenting software is a weak idea ("Europe Braces for Patent Rules," May 28, 2004). In more than 30 years in the industry, I've never seen anything that someone didn't discuss while I was in university.
The proper place for software is copyright. In a sense, all software is trivial (it is just instructions for a piece of hardware that performs a function). Patenting software is no different than if a car manufacturer was granted a patent for steering cars using electronic stimuli to control a motive force that controls the steering wheel (i.e., use your muscles).
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Date: 05/27/2004 06:29 PM
Name: Paul Rosenberg (paul@captainsmartypants.com)
Subject: Apple wants everybody's songs ... but mine
Apple Computer may say it wants to sell all the music there is, but just try selling your music there. Unless you're a record company, forget even finding out how to contact Apple about selling your songs. I'm part of a nonprofit arts organization with more than a dozen CDs of music to sell, but Apple couldn't care less about "the rest of us" in this case. I've sent the company several e-mails and received no responses at all.
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Date: 05/27/2004 10:48 AM
Name: ken (ken.a.davis@lmco.com)
Subject: Wartime Wireless Worries Pentagon
If one works in a secured workplace, one is not allowed to have a camera, or phone camera, or any recording device ("Wartime Wireless Worries Pentagon," May 26, 2004). Most aircraft workplaces do not allow their employees to have any kind of recording device at all, no firearms, no alcohol. Does that mean they're hiding something?
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