Oracle v Google recently captured headlines with the US District Court verdict in favor of Google, giving it fair use of Oracle’s Java API. Two years ago, on appeal of an earlier decision in this series of litigation, US Federal Circuit court sided in favor of Oracle, giving it the right to copyright the Java
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Archives for May 2016
DCI Digging A Deeper Hole for Itself
No group has made a more honest effort to bring SMPTE DCP into production than ISDCF. One of the reasons ISDCF has been popular and successful is its pragmatic, incremental approach to introducing new features and updates. Having established, through its many plugfests, a baseline for SMPTE DCP interoperability across the most up-to-date versions of
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The Dilemma of Speckle Measurement
In December of 2015, the Laser Illuminated Projector Association (LIPA) released its Recommended Practice for the Measurement of Speckle. The good news is that there’s an agreed method for measuring speckle from laser illuminated projectors. The bad news is that there’s no longer an excuse for not publishing a number. Or is there?