Costs >> Benefits

I would guess because he developed his solution while at work and his employment terms require all inventions are assigned to the company. Hence it's not his to license.

How do people in the Netherlands feel about the notion of "common carrier"?

http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html

Is common carrier a useful concept for society?

What do you think?

Yes. I think some of the other publishers are more egregious than Elsevier. Everything is bundled together as you say and access is monopolised that way.

But things have to start somewhere. Maybe it's only with Elsevier and maybe it with Maths faculty and only with the journals they publish in. But the whole system is so despicable in light of today's technology and publishing costs that once it's brought to light how much better things could be, I think change will come fairly quick.

Didn't at least one library try threatening a publisher that the univerity's faculty would no longer publish in that publisher's journals if fees were not made reasonable?

Is that a viable strategy?

Mathematics Departments are going to be the heros in lowering the costs to access scholarly journals, in all disciplines.

It has to start somewhere.

Low cost, online education, which is a popular topic here on HN, is a neat idea. But to really make it worthwhile, the student needs full access to all academic journals.

For that to happen, the paywalls have to come down.

I agree, besides maths and physics have arxiv. The difficult part is forcing the life sciences people out of their antiquated ways of thinking.

I'll stick with CurveCP, thanks. It works, it has the added "perk" of encryption, and it's not tied to a single application, like uTP.

Then again, if you tie something into an application that hundreds of thousands of people already use, like uTP is tied into a popular bittorrent client, you can then claim "Hundreds of thousands of people are using it, to carry major traffic."

You may already know this, but uTP's congestion control algorithm is usable with vanilla TCP, where it is called LEDBAT (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ledbat-congestion-01).

Of course, from the perspective of a Bittorrent client author it's much easier to implement TCP-over-UDP than to depend upon raw socket support / install a custom congestion control algorithm into the OSes TCP stack.

If there was a generic utpclient/utpserver pair of applications that I could use to proxy non-uTP applications, as there is with CCP, I'd try using uTP/LEDBAT. But to my knowledge, there isn't.

(Note: see http://curvecp.org/decongestion.html for details. It looks interesting, but I haven't looked at it closely.)

Bert, you forgot epigenetics, specifically methylation.

Or maybe that was intentional, since technically this is "code" that is passed outside of DNA.

But it forms a significant and mysterious part of the "final program". Not to be ignored.

I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data?

CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes to a very limited scope of reviewers. I'd suggest that the scrutiny (fact-checking) that their resume gets is not quite the same as, say, a developer applying to a large IT company. Whether the demand for a factually accurate resume from a potential CEO is greater, less than or the same as your average developer is left as a question for the reader.

Here the person leading the search embellished her own credentials.

Perhaps when selecting a CEO, there are "more important things" than the checking the accuracy of his/her resume.

But then you could also argue finding false information on a resume might just have some informative value of its own.

The public almost never gets to see a CEO's resume. I mean the actual document, not some blurb that comes out of the communications department.

As an aside, this company makes verifying lots of resume educational claims relatively simple http://www.nslc.org/

What does your last paragraph have to do with the clause you excerpted? This clause appears to have nothing to do with the company suing you. It appears to deal with the reverse.

When you mentioned "people who use lawsuits as a normative way to do business" and one-sided contract terms drafted by "armies of lawyers with nothing better to do" I thought of Apple, and some other IT companies.

Then to my surprise I noticed you are an iOS developer.

Not sure what to think.

If you see a clause in an agreement you don't like, it makes little sense to get angry, just politely ask them to remove it.

Do you think Dragon's Den does this?

Imagine if every reality TV actor had to agree to give a portion of their future earnings to the network, in the event they become very successful.

The question is, if you ask ABC to delete this provision, is it a deal-breaker?

Some will just blindly agree to it, no doubt.

There have been a handful of companies with real revenues on the show. I can't imagine they would agree to such terms. It would be insane.