I'm pleased that FSF is going to add patent defense to its new GPL 3. Many other open-source licenses have such provisions already.

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At this time, the negatives outweigh the positives with regard to cybercounseling, ... When all you have to work with is a text-based message, you miss many of the vital cues available in face-to-face interactions. That is antithetical to doing good therapy.

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They left family and safety for a dream. And in our case the dream really came true.

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It elicits a moment in history. Being a New Yorker and living among immigrants, it really warms your heart that this opened doors for so many generations. It enabled so many opportunities not only for the people that were coming, but a future for their descendants.

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My cell phone rang 10 times on the way down here. But our place is OK. As long as everyone's OK that's the main thing.

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[Will cybertherapy become the wave of the future? There is not much danger of that happening today, although the landscape is changing somewhat with the use of videoconferencing software that enables cybertherapists to pick up on the nonverbal cues that are essential to therapy.] Without these cues, ... it is very difficult to do anything more than provide an informational resource to patients.

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