IamThePherocity

The clean room was argued by Google to aid with the justification, but this isn't a requirement of law. An author can read another authors work, and create a novel with similarities.

Fair enough point, though I don't feel this is a gray area. The chilling effect alone, being that I could be sued for simply looking at open source code is disturbing. Because that's what it boils down to. Most of our software today is a derivative work of something. I looked at rails code, so does that mean I can never write a web framework lest I be sued?

Well, I certainly will not be using Monit ever again should this be accurate. There is no illegal activity from what I can tell, so it's entirely baseless. Are they unclear about what copyright means? Did they hire a lawyer? Does not inspire a lot of confidence.

edit: I've reached out to Monit for an explanation, and will amend if they reply.

I entirely expect to have both breakfast and lunch as soylent (like) meals and then enjoy suppers. I end up eating less healthy because I don't have time to make a good lunch every day, it's just not possible. Breakfast is usually skipped. I don't even care if it's disgusting, as long as I'm getting enough nutrients to sustain me.

I don't think anyone has any illusions anymore that journalism as a means of informing the reader is at best dying, if not already dead. If a news organization can lie, then there is no point in in reading news, because fictitious news has no value to the reader. Throw in the polarization and sensationalism between the absurd right and left political extremes, and you have theater, not news.

I now follow journalists that I've vetted and trust to some extent, and heavily use sites like this to help filter the nonsense. I'll skim BBC and Al Jezeria English, but even them, I withhold opinion until I can get a sense of accuracy and corroboration.

I feel Apple may have the best approach. Comment on nothing, release press releases, and only conduct interviews with vetted reporters.