[IP] Source code at issue in drunk test

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ted Nelson <tandm@xanadu.net>
Date: August 12, 2007 4:16:34 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Source code at issue in drunk test
Reply-To: tandm@xanadu.net

Hi Dave

This is like the voting-machine thing: citizen concern
 over what's inside the boxes we live with.

from http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6202038.html

An attorney for a Minnesota man accused of drunken driving says he  
doesn't think the manufacturer of a breathalyzer will meet a court- 
imposed deadline of August 17 to turn over its source code.

If that happens, his client could go free.

As CNET News.com reported earlier this week, the Minnesota Supreme  
Court ruled late last month that source code for the Intoxilyzer  
5000EN, made by a Kentucky-based company called CMI, must be handed  
to defense attorneys for use in a case involving charges of third- 
degree DUI against a man named Dale Lee Underdahl. CMI's historic  
resistance to such demands has led to charges being dropped in at  
least one case outside of Minnesota.
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Theodor Holm Nelson
  Founder, Project Xanadu
  Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute
  Visiting Professor, University of Southampton

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