licenses

Software

Licensing Issues Behind Decision To Kill Snow Leopard ZFS Plans

5:45AM Jack Loftus | From the OpenSolaris forums, by way of Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, comes word this morning that Apple’s decision to remove ZFS support from Snow Leopard was based on licensing issues. More »
Vehicles

Laser Windshield System Keeps the Elderly Driving Longer For Some Reason

1:14AM Adam Frucci | Which sounds like a better way to make the roads safer: rescind drivers licenses from people who are very old and have failing vision, or create a fancy system with lasers to allow them to keep driving. If you answered the latter, you’re in the same camp as General Motors. They’re hard at work on a fancy new windshield that uses lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to make it easier for your decrepit old granddad to see just where the hell he’s going. More »
Gadgets

Gizmodo’s Official Licence Plate

7:00AM Jason Chen | The guys at Tasty Booze may think whoever owns this guy is a gigantic douche, but we know better. This guy is a gigantic Gizmodo fan. You can’t fit “Gigantic Gizmodo Fan” on a licence plate, so he shortened it to “BIG GIZ”. Here’s to you, Giz fan—you Pontiac driver you. [TastyBooze - Thanks Blakeley!] More »
Design

Intellectual Property Donor Sticker Proves Your Unrealistic Arrogance After You’re Dead

9:20AM Wilson Rothman | What happens to your intellectual property if you die in some kind of nasty accident? Worried, perhaps, that your life’s work would be stifled by 70 years of copyright protection, meant to benefit only your ungrateful dependents? Why not donate it all to the public domain? Affix this (legally binding?) sticker on your driver’s license, in the place generally reserved for organ donor information, and you’re good to go. After all, who needs your kidney when the world could freely enjoy your crappy poetry instead? [ni9e via Make] More »