taking joy in the popping of the social media bubble & other web 2.0 silliness
Word came out today that James Gosling is going to be awarded the Order of Canada; which is the highest award a Canadian can be given by Canada.
For those that may not recognize the name, James Gosling is the person responsible for the original design of the Java programming language.
Congratulations James – you make all Canuck geeks proud.
Here we go again:
A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, alongside China, Russia and Belize.
This from interests that believe they have the right to dictate what you can do with a product once you have paid your hard earned money for it.
Of course they don’t mention the fact that the majority of pirated movies are being made available from within the industry itself. Instead they try to purchase Canadian political power to have draconian changes made to our existing copyright laws. Makes one wonder who the real criminals are.
