Archive for November, 2009
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OH Really?!! Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group — latimes.com
Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group: The American Medical Assn. On Tuesday urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research.
Microsoft Steals Again This time GPL code, uses in Microsoft Store tool | Within Windows
Microsoft lifts GPL code, uses in Microsoft Store tool | Within Windows: ”
Microsoft lifts GPL code, uses in Microsoft Store tool
committed to database on November 6, 2009 at 10:53 pm Eastern Standard Time22 comments digg this
Update 11/7: The example I provided yesterday (ReadBytes) was replaced with a new one. Note that it is only an example. I’m not here to prove my case in a huge exhaustive post for you. That’s left as an exercise for the reader.
While poking through the UDF-related internals of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, I had a weird feeling there was just wayyyyyyyyy too much code in there for such a simple tool. A simple search of some method names and properties, gleaned from Reflector’s output, revealed the source code was obviously lifted from the CodePlex-hosted (yikes) GPLv2-licensed ImageMaster project. (The author of the code was not contacted by Microsoft.)
