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I am cancelling my Yahoo membership in protest against Yahoo’s
policy of
releasing names of account holders to the Chinese government for
purposes of
prosecuting political “dissidents”. (See story in NY Times Sunday
Sept 18)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18sun3.html?th&emc=th
Yahoo’s promise of security is evidently an empty one. Their actions
have resulted in the jailing of a Yahoo member for 10 years!! Can
their
promises
of privace withstand a challenge in this country? Our own
government is
currently arguing its right to hold anyone for any length of time for
supicion of
terrorism. Who is safe, especially with the Iraq war going so
badly now?
I am taking my name off Yahoo’s list of members, a list whose numbers
determine the value of advertising on Yahoo. I only suggest that
any member
who
continues with Yahoo remember that they open themselves to
prosecution for
“private” statements, allegedly covered by Yahoo’s privace
assurances.
I await Yahoo’s public apology for this patent violation of privacy
agreements, both stated and understood, and a mission statement
precluding
future
violations of privacy.

“Obviously, Apple ripped off the idea for Dashboard. Stolen wholesale, without even the decency to mention where they took the original idea.

Which, of course, would be the desk accessories from the original 1984 Macintosh — conceived by Bud Tribble and engineered (mostly) by Andy Hertzfeld.

Dashboard is not a rip-off of Konfabulator. Yes, they are doing very much the same thing. But what it is that they’re doing was not an original idea to Konfabulator. The scope of a “widget” is very much the modern-day equivalent of a desk accessory.

What is original to Konfabulator? That its widgets are based on a scripting language? That’s not original. There are a slew of other scripting runtimes that allow you to create little-applets-in-windows. E.g. on the old Mac OS, there was OneClick.”

http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator