Ilaw: Wikipedia Assignment
Place your wiki page and thoughts here.
Ben Snitkoff: Personal Jurisdiction in Internet Cases
I chose to edit the Personal Jurisdiction in Internet Cases page, as it was covered in our third class.
March 16, 2008
I just finished editing the Personal Jurisdiction in Internet Cases page. First thing I'll say is that editing a wikipedia page wholesale like that is a lot harder then it looks. The markup is very different then anything I was used to, so I made quite a few errors in the markup, and probably one or two in text too. It's kind of like writing a short memo in word, but without the benefit of being able to see the formatting before you're done. Not pleasant.
March 31, 2008
Someone has finally edited my article, but only to correct a possessive and make "defendant" vs. "Defendant" changes. I therefore conclude that my legal analysis is beyond reproach. Or, at least up to the standards of wikipedia.
John Long: GNU GPL
I chose to edit the GNU GPL page after our discussion in class today.
March 20, 2008
12:00 AM. I was able to edit the page more easily than I thought, save for the markup. With extensive coverage already present, it was easy to pick out what I needed to get a quick first edit completed. I continue to believe that the GPL is one of the most restrictive licenses ever conceived. I also believe that it will eventually be found unconstitutional in the United States, despite prevailing recently in US courts. Wikipedia will not allow me to post my unpublished, baseless (and at the moment unprovable) criticism of the GNU GPL. I fault Wikipedia for that shortcoming.
March 20, 2008
6:49 PM. Nice. Somebody has already read the link I posted and added to my original entry.
April 5, 2008
Furthering my belief that the GPL is too restrictive, I cited a source where the parties could not implement Sun's ZFS filesystem as a kernel module. It is not clear that either party is per se at fault, but the license incompatibilities will require one of the licenses to change. Sun, meanwhile, patented the open source ZFS, which has chilled efforts to reverse engineer the code...(other examples of GPL subversion include trademark battles - I will look for that article in a later update)
Jason Langley: reverse engineering
I chose to mess with the reverse engineering page, specifically the legality section
March 30, 2008
20:21 PM. Added quote from Sega case. This section needs a bunch more work though, probably splitting it and specifically addressing copyrights and patents would be good.