Closed source doesn't prevent people from reverse engineering it to find exploits, it just makes it harder for others to contribute to fixing it
Natanael
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Copyright covers creative expression, not functionality. The code and unique design elements would be protected, but not the idea of a grid or guessing letters, etc (which all predate them anyway). Even the word list is difficult to claim protection to if it was generated by algorithmic filters on dictionary words (it probably was) because then the selection also isn't expressive.
So I can't copy their code or exact look, but I can definitely make my own version legally.
What's the point? Yeah I don't know why they spent money on such a simple concept either. The copyright protection is far more useful when the thing has enough expression that clones won't be indistinguishable anymore.
But they don't have control over the clones, copyright don't extend that far
If they're profiting more than they're paying for maintaining this standard as the default then they don't want it to change
You can make it sooo cursed lol.
A KVM usually have circuitry that can handle a specific total bandwidth and a specific number of HDMI or DP ports (I've seen a few where using 2x 4K displays would disable the remaining ports until disconnected due to bandwidth).
To make this work as expected for a KVM you need circuitry to handle all ports being used for either standard (expensive, lol), and have each physical port connected to I/O on both the HDMI and DP controller. Or support half and half, but connect each port to even more I/O ports and start doing switching...
It was released 2003, but yeah. My 2004 account is still active, and I have an older Hotmail address
Sounds like a power savings logic error
There's already a ruling they have to allow other browser engines
The sensors and optics and custom very high DPI display panel alone pushes the price up
Fun fact, the article author got laid off too recently
The power button
Linux is currently having parts of the kernel rewritten in memory safe languages like Rust, eliminating entire classes of exploits. Wayland is being developed with a far more secure architecture than the old X.org window manager. One important reason why they can do this is because the whole industry follows and stuff like drivers can be updated at the same time to keep everything working, and it doesn't even need to be the original developer patching it.
Microsoft's opacity makes it near impossible for them to do the same thing, so much of their security improvements are essentially hacked in on top of old code to not break compatibility. Instead of eliminating bug classes they rely on tons of techniques to make them harder to exploit instead - yet not impossible.