step in the right direction

Jumping right into it. The comment voted most insightful by visitors to this site involved a comment on our post about the legal threat we received this week. Matt used that story to point out some issues with the legal system:

Good reason for judicial reform

On the Mayflower blog there's a new post looking at the upcoming traits support PHP 5.4 will have to offer.

(Note: original post in German)

The danger of applying DRM to any software is that the pirated copy can turn into a more desirable product than the retail version.

That is, those who download a copy illegally are actually better off than legitimate customers who chose to spend their hard earned cash to purchase it through the usual channels.

In my Beyond Frameworks talk, I explained how a component-based architecture can help answe

While I've been quite disappointed in the current administration's positions on various copyright issues, I will admit that it's been a lot better about at least talking to some of us critics and asking us for our thoughts.

Actually listening to what we have to say still seems to be a bit lacking, but it's a step in the right direction.

RapidShare takes all reasonable measures to prevent movies from being distributed through its web-service, a German court ruled yesterday.

The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf overturned the earlier decision of a local district court in a second case brought by movie outfit Capelight Pictures.

Like most file-hosting services, RapidShare hosts a wide range of movies, music and software files that are distributed without the consent of the rightsholders.

WorksWithU: "Call it a small but strategic step in the right direction. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat and Novell, the folks at Canonical are positioning Ubuntu for use by Wall Street firms."