Like so much of economics, the hard part is coming up with a price tag that everyone agrees on in all contexts. How much would you pay to save your grandmother's life from an illness? How much would you accept to allow me to hunt her for sport?
So, in that sense, coming up with a precise measure of marginal cost / marginal benefit would be hard in practice.
That should be #!/usr/bin/env bash, particularly for BSD which does not install bash in /bin. Nothing new about absolute executable paths being non-portable, #!/bin/bash is as bad as #!/usr/bin/python.
Yes, I remember reading that at some point, but what I found interesting is that they seem to be trademarking not the glyph, but the codepoint, so these fonts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#U.2BF8FF_usag... are breaking the law. Or rather, anything with the character in it, like Codhisattva's comment.
How are they breaking the law? That would require use in an infringing way, and the law has some well defined requirements for what that means.
First, Why do you think that Apple claims a trademark on the codepoint? It's not something Apple mentioned in the quote I did earlier:
> The graphic image associated with the Apple logo character is not authorized for use without permission of Apple, and unauthorized use might constitute trademark infringement.
I also did a USPTO trademark search for 'F8FF' and found nothing, so it doesn't look like the codepoint is trademarked.
Second, even if there were some sort of trademark on F8FF, inclusion of a symbol in a font isn't in and of itself trademark infringement. The use must cause a likelihood of customer confusion, otherwise no infringement is possible.
Use of a trademark doesn't mean trademark infringement. Codhisattva's comment is not trademark infringement. There's no misrepresentation or market confusion. I can say things like "compatible with Micosoft Windows" even though I don't control that trademark or have permission from Microsoft.
Not only that, but in the US Codhisattva's comment is covered by free speech. I can sell a button that says "No !" as a form of protest or political commentary even if selling a T-shirt which says "I♥!" is likely infringement (doubly so if it infringes on NYC's INY style).
$ curl -IL http://www.amazon.com/gp/aag/main/ref=olp_merch_name_1\?ie=UTF8\&asin=0521141885\&isAmazonFulfilled=0\&seller=A2HO9KC0NMYNYH
HTTP/1.1 405 MethodNotAllowed
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 22:57:27 GMT
Server: Server
x-amz-id-1: [redacted because I have no idea what this is]
allow: POST, GET
x-amz-id-2: [redacted because I have no idea what this is]
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
I don't get why this is so newsworthy and "innovative". Matias makes a good line of keyboards[0] (even a mechanical one!) based on the same concept, just with 1 wireless and 1 wired connection. Wired is a lot less of a hassle for me anyway, and you don't even have to change the batteries.
That's the innovation part. 1 wireless + 1 wired doesn't help you much if you want to use it with multiple mobile devices (tablet + phone, for example) besides laptops.
