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USER COMMENTS BY SCOTT MCMAHAN |
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12/31/11 11:39 AM |
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The irony is that the copyright restrictions on modern Bible versions have kept the KJV alive and well in the new century, since it's the only version of the Bible you can put on a handheld device (or in software like E-sword) without paying a copyright holder an excessive amount of money to get the rights to use their text.And it's not just the KJV, I've seen this with other texts. Since almost every edition of a public domain text created since 1930 is still under copyright, the world is starting to basically ignore the entire 20th century and use 19th century editions of texts, which are out of copyright, for digital editions. The reality of all-but-perpetual copyright has basically caused a lost century of scholarship, because people are ignoring works produced in the 20th century which will be under copyright likely in perpetuity. Copyright holders are hoist on their own petard, to use a 16th century phrase. |
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12/17/11 10:53 AM |
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Given IE's less than stellar track record with security, this is a good thing. Newer versions are better than older versions. Most new security flaws are now in plug-ins, not the browser itself. Other browsers already do auto-update, so MS was late to the game in rolling this out.This is hardly a panacea, however, with pirated versions of Windows and corporate Windows installs that don't auto-update at all. Many corporations wrote custom in-house software that depended on IE6's non-standard extensions, and many of these corporations can't move on to modern browser versions because they can't or won't rewrite their custom software. You can't really give kudos to MS for doing this, since they're responsible for IE in the first place. You can't really hand out attaboys for someone helping to fix a disaster that they perpetrated in the first place. IE's bugs and incompatibilities have held back the web for a long, long time now, and it's been a security nightmare. Microsoft has addressed both of these issues with recent versions, however, so they get some credit for that. |
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