---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20191117164358.GA17542@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:43:58 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Sprint puts T-Mobile talks on hold to negotiate with cable duo, report says By Robert Smith Sprint has put merger talks with T-Mobile US on hold to pursue two months of exclusive talks with cable giants Comcast and Charter Communications, according to a published report. In a story published Monday night, The Wall Street Journal cited sources it did not identify to say that the two-month window runs through late July, suggesting that Sprint's cable talks have been underway for about a month. https://valliantnews.com/2019/11/17/sprint-puts-t-mobile-talks-on-hold-to-negotiate-with-cable-duo-report-says/ -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20191117162933.GA17509@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 16:29:33 +0000 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: UPDATE: Rhea County 911 and non-emergency lines restored after outage Phone service has been restored and all phone lines are back in operation, Rhea County dispatch announced. by Preston Steger & Mary Francis Hoots UPDATE: Phone service has been restored and all phone lines are back in operation, Rhea County dispatch announced. PREVIOUS STORY: Rhea County's 911 and non-emergency lines are temporarily out of service due to severed cables, the local dispatch announced. https://www.wrcbtv.com/story/41328801/update-rhea-county-911-and-nonemergency-lines-restored-after-outage -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <2D1D15EB-1B68-407C-9C69-8FE5A5292522@roscom.com> Date: 16 Nov 2019 14:16:44 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: Supreme Court agrees to review disastrous ruling on API copyrights The Supreme Court has agreed to review one of the decade's most significant software copyright decisions: last year's ruling by an appeals court that Google infringed Oracle's copyrights when Google created an independent implementation of the Java programming language. The 2018 ruling by the Federal Circuit appeals court "will upend the longstanding expectation of software developers that they are free to use existing software interfaces to build new computer programs," Google wrote in its January petition to the Supreme Court. The stakes are high both for Google and for the larger software industry. Until recently, it was widely assumed that copyright law didn't control the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) - standard function calls that allow third parties to build software compatible with an established platform like Java. ... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/supreme-court-will-review-high-stakes-google-v-oracle-ruling/ ***** Moderator's Note ***** If it wasn't for API access, Microsoft would be a small-time software design firm: they bought MS-DOS from a developer who had used the CP/M API to create a competing operationg system. This is as big as it gets, and it's going to be a great test of the quality and wisdom of the new crop of SCOTUS appointees coming out of the current administration. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Mon, 18 Nov 2019