Monday, October 7, 2002
Mac OS X Report Card: October 2002
At last week's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, I gave a talk grading Mac OS X in a number of categories, and although a draft was discussed on TidBITS Talk, I wanted to share the final version here. Since I haven't attempted this exercise earlier in Mac OS X's history, the grades are for Mac OS X overall, not just Jaguar, and thus include previous versions as appropriate.
Crucial Week Ahead for Rights in Digital Age
This week, Larry Lessig will argue in the U.S. Supreme Court — a case called Eldred v. Ashcroft — that Congress can’t indefinitely extend copyright terms. The case is easily the most important “intellectual property” case in years, because if Eldred loses, the copyright cartel will be impossible to stop for at least a decade.
