Deception: Android, Microsoft Plagiarism, Stigma, and FSFE
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iTWire - Top Indian court rebuffs Google attempt to get Android ruling changed
India's Supreme Court has delivered Google a slap in the face, ruling that it would not make any changes to an anti-trust order that seeks changes in the Android mobile operating system.
The company had appealed to the country's highest court, hoping that a ruling by the Competition Commission of India, the nation's competition regulator, would be watered down.
The only concession by the court on Thursday was that it gave the CCI one more week to enforce its ruling, according to a report in TechCrunch.
The ruling was made last year, with the CCI alleging that Google had abused the dominant position held by its Play Store by requiring users in India to install the entire Google Mobile Suite.
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Is Copyright Eating AI? [Ed: So a 'former' Microsofter is trying to defend Microsoft plagiarism. Says a lot about Microsoft. "Hey Hi" (AI) does not mean plagiarism, but Microsoft muddies the water intentionally.]
Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. But the latest and greatest software trend–generative AI–is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law. Like a cruise ship heading for a scary iceberg, AI is in trouble, and the problems are mostly below the surface.
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The Stable Diffusion suit alleges copyright infringement, stating that, “The resulting image is necessarily a derivative work, because it is generated exclusively from a combination of the conditioning data and the latent images, all of which are copies of copyrighted images. It is, in short, a 21st-century collage tool.” That characterization is the essence and conclusion of the lawsuit, and one with which many AI designers would disagree.
So, all neural network developers, get ready for the lawyers, because they are coming to get you.
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On entitlement, toxicity, and burnout in Open Source #OpenSource [Ed: Stigma by Microsofters. GitHub isn't a community and it never was.]
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Paper Review: “Did You Miss My Comments Or What?” Toxicity In Open Source Discussions [Ed: GitHub is not open source but an attack on it. Conflating one thing with another.]
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Municipalities need Free Software: Recording and new mailing list [Ed: FSFE is pretending that Dortmund moves to Free software because of FSFE; typical lie and nothing could be further from the truth]
Dortmund is opening a new chapter in Free Software Governance and inspiring municipalities all over Germany. The recording of our event on 11 January 2023 is now online. Are you interested in Free Software and working in a municipal administration or in politics? Join our new mailing list to exchange information on Free Software in municipalities!