News blips

[Mark S. Miller]

Another Bernstein success on the way up to the Supreme Court!

>From
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2254799,00.html?chkpt=zdnnstop

"The government's efforts to maintain tight regulation over encryption 
technology received a severe blow Thursday, as a U.S. Appeals Court ruled 
that source code is protected by the First Amendment."



While Sun keeps control of the "Java" trademark, it's rapidly loosing 
control over the Java standard.  Fucking over the ISO didn't help.

>From 
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2254650%2C00.html

"Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have joined with several other 
companies to form J-Consortium, a group that aims to establish an alternate 
standard for Java."


	Cheers,
	--MarkM