CTFE and DI: The Crossroads of D

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Thu May 10 12:39:47 PDT 2012


"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message 
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> 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.





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