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Dropbox "kills" cloud open-source project, Dropship

Drop box logo Updated: Reports earlier this week from several open-source developers made worrying reading. Cloud-filesystem-darling Dropbox has allegedly been censoring and making crass legal threats against an open source project, Dropship, by misusing the DMCA. The affair has also uncovered what seem to be idiotic, insecure practices at Dropbox, which bring serious implications for enterprises whose users reply on Dropbox. Let's get closer to the truth, by taking The Long View...
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Is jailbreaking iPhones a business opportunity?

The U.S. government this week decided that jailbreaking iPhones doesn't violate copyright law. Does that mean we'll start to see businesses cropping up selling legally hacked, customized iPhones?

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An iPhone jailbreak! Call the cops! No -- we can't. Just void the warranty.

Practicality and an awareness of their market once convinced the suits at Compaq that their customers were going to do their own expansions, and they might as well live with it. Apple may finally be learning the same lesson.

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