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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
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Wow! Don't do any favors for the Air Force! They might just take your hard work and not pay! Check this article out!
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Frankly, I've got extremely little sympathy for the DMCA in general, so anybody that tells it to go to h*ll, even if it is the government, automatically attracts my sympathy.
And I've got even less for Davenport's obtuseness. Yes, I know it is a program he developed in his spare time, but once you got a promotion for it, well, that means it just got professional, and the code becomes "company" (USAF in this case) property. Davenport was insubordinate, and actively acting against the interests of the USAF. ******* him. |
I don't see it that way. Here is a man with an idea that tried to create a business, and then got shunned for getting too big. To me, this is a terrible thing! The small guy got kicked! The Air Force liked his product that he spent many hours on hoping to create a future for himself! Then the AF copied it! That is absurd in my book. Insubordinate it is not. You can call that after the AF already dumped on him by demanding the source code.
The DMCA - I am no friend of that either, but it is one way this guy could have returned to his business model vs being dumped out in the cold. The DMCA however in iteself needs to be dumped. It is bad legislation.
-S