Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by x0x0 on Sunday October 26, 2014 @04:40PM
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I tend to agree, but I also think industries -- particularly tech -- have a working definition of totally botched lawmaking that means lawmaking the industry doesn't like. eg the lawsuits against Napster, that was attempting to build a business facilitating bulk copyright infringement with vanishingly few non-infringing uses.
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Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by stinkytaco on Sunday October 26, 2014 @05:55PM
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I think this is true of almost any industry, but it does seem especially prevalent it tech (which also seems to attract a greater number than average of the "I'm smarter than most" crowd). You can always claim that lawmakers don't understand [insert your industry here], but I suspect many understand it better than we think, but still disagree.
Re:Bill Gates answers questions about Java during a depositi...
by colechristensen on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:17AM
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It's fairly obvious that disturbingly many senators and congressmen in important positions (relating to tech) have only faint ideas of things necessary to properly make voting decisions.
There is a difference between the common incompetence of elected officials and the existence of competent lawyers in high profile cases.