> Small children can detect the difference between these two scenarios; but to some people they are equivalent. I have no clue why that that is.

It is because they are lawyers and politicians. They are impervious to logic or reality.

Everyone else, once they think a bit about it, can see that "intellectual property" is an oxymoron.

The thrill of the TSA circus!

Other than that, nobody should care. Copying is how humanity has progressed over history.

So called "intellectual property" is an oxymoron, it is not compatible with either real private property or free markets, while benefiting just a few at the expense of everyone else.

Exactly, patents are government granted monopolies by definition and by design.

Honeywell is using them precisely the way they are meant to and the way they have always been used through history, from the steam engines to Apple.

Yes, patents are supposed to encourage innovation, but by creating monopolies they archive precisely the opposite.

He should be complaining about how stupid and counterproductive the so call intellectual property system is, not about some other company that is not Apple doing what Apple and almost everyone else has been doing all along.

So much hypocrisy.

> They even petitioned the government to provide monoplistic protection.

That is *precisely* what a patent is: a government granted and enforced monopoly.

Boggles the mind how anyone thinks patents are a good way to encourage innovation, monopolies hate innovation. And patents have a very long track record of being used to keep whole industries from making any progress, from the steam engine to aircrafts.

How many times do we need to repeat "Security Circus"?

Given all the TSA has got away with so far, it is clear they can do whatever the fuck they like and face no consequences at all.

The Java is too fundamentally broken to be fixed, the world would be better off if it was completely deprecated.

This is one reason why I love Go, it is more safe than C while it actually removes layers of complexity, it doesn't even depend on libc and its stdlb is extremely clean and lean.

J2EE is as close to a cancer as software can become.

Java has become exactly what it was meant to become: The new COBOL.

The amazing thing is that even before the first stable release is out quite a few organizations are using Go in production to run real systems. Very impressive:

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

People have not learned anything from the history of the internet, and keep trying to build new generations of the same old walled gardens people abandoned long ago.

Should have studied history a bit more closely, if you build your business (or career) on proprietary technology controlled by somebody else you will get screwed sooner or later.

Microsoft has dumped their developers overboard many times before, and will continue to do it as long as it is convenient. At least in this case they are replacing things with relatively open standards that they can't so easily kill later on.

Flash developers are starting to learn this the hard way too, apple developers will be next.

Java programming and bureaucratic standards, with some luck they will catch soon up with the level of C++ insanity.

The government should not be in the business of granting and enforcing private monopolies. The only economy that benefits is that of lawyers and other parasites.