Thanks. From the additional context in the link, it sounds like Readium might believe that this implementation is infringing on their proprietary ebook format code. I wonder if the taken down repo was a clean room implementation? If not they might have a case, if it looks similar
Doesn't matter if it is clean room or not. In the US, it isn't legal to share anti-DRM technology. Perhaps you could get some court to decide that this law violates the 1st Amendment, but that would be an uphill climb.
People shouldn't host anti-DRM stuff on any US site.
> People shouldn't host anti-DRM stuff on any US site.
This is the right answer.
On this, I'm somewhat surprised that nobody in Russia/China/Iran/NK/$OtherCountryThatDoesntCareForRelationsWithUSA has built a "GitHub for shady programs" yet - or if they have, it has not gone mainstream yet, I admit to not being up-to-date with "the scene". It's fairly ridiculous that you'd publish hacking tools on a Microsoft-owned site based in the US, it's like storing lock-picking hardware in a police station.
There are plenty of foreign hosts, the problem is that nobody knows about them. Gitee is a pretty big Chinese Github alternative, for example. Parts of the Russian software scene seems to prefer forums to dump software and source code.
You won't find these repositories looking for them, because they're often in their native language. Many forum posts are also locked behind registration. I've used Google Translate a bunch of times to get Russian software working, but only after someone linked it to me.
There was https://git.rip but the creator got raided for other hacktivism and it was seized. (They need help with legal bills, donate at https://arson.cat)
HTML version recently get 403 Forbidden in Firefox's context menu search. It appears to be caused by Firefox adds a 'Origin: null' header in the request. Hope they can solve this bug one day.
$ mit-scheme
MIT/GNU Scheme running under GNU/Linux
Type `^C' (control-C) followed by `H' to obtain information about interrupts.
Copyright (C) 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Image saved on Friday January 4, 2019 at 11:17:34 PM
Release 9.2 || Microcode 15.3 || Runtime 15.7 || SF 4.41 || LIAR/C 4.118 || Edwin 3.116
1 ]=>
MIT scheme does not love us as users. That's fine. That's entirely their decision of which this is one example. This aspect of the mit-scheme culture is a pretty significant hurdle to it gaining popularity. Probably one that was simply too big. I believe it has been replaced with python for 6.001 nowadays too.
Another example of the same mentality can be seen in the really great SICP video lectures. Jerry Sussman treats the audience like a compiler. He takes the view if he says it once correctly, successful communication of the idea is no longer his problem. That's a lot easier for the audience now we can rewind videos and listen to some small number of sentences again, and again until we get it. It's not exactly a fun way to learn things. It is also a massive contrast to the way say Larry Wall or Guido Van Rossum went about things. I've noticed since Perl ever single new language trumpets how friendly and /helpful/ the community is. I think that's probably pretty significant. This is not a criticism of Jerry, I don't know what his objectives with the language and SICP course were. Hard to get into is hard to get into whatever the reasons.
Racket can also be used in terminal. But I think it's harder to debug in terminal compared to debug in DrRacket especially in the later chapter. Besides, racket also has a sicp package for the book(https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual).
