"H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 03:50:42AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > [...] >> Actually, here's a great example of the evils of closed...well, the >> evils of closed *platforms* which IMNSHO are 100x worse than merely >> "closed source software": >> >> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120326/08360818246/patents-threaten-to-silence-little-girl-literally.shtml > > That wouldn't be the first time something like this happened. It happens > on a routine basis. Pharmaceutical companies do things like this all the > time. They will refuse to fund research, or actively seek to hamper > research (e.g. by holding patents they threaten to sue anyone with who > dares produce said cure), that may lead to a cure to some disease which > they currently sell treatments for, or they will outright refuse to > produce said cure when it's discovered -- because once there's a cure, > there's no more need of treatments, so they will lose money. So they'd > rather there will *never* be a cure so that people will continue buying > treatments. Human life? What's that? Never heard of such a thing. More > money, more wealth, at the expense of our customers! >
I always suspected that. > > The only thing that can come close to being uncrackable is something > that's so hard to use that most people wouldn't bother with it. Which > gave me a funny thought: one way of writing code that nobody can steal > is to write it in MALBOLGE (http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml). Geez that's insane! And I thought brainfuck was nuts.
