DeCSS haiku by the "Wall Street Journal", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Wired" and the "New York Times Magazine". DeCSS haiku DeCSS haiku is a 465-stanza haiku poem written in 2001 by American hacker Seth Schoen as part of the protest action regarding the prosecution of Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen for co-creating the DeCSS software. The poem, written in the spirit of civil disobedience against the DVD Copy Control Association, argues that "code is speech". DeCSS haiku was created in the context of a series of protests, coming from the international hacker community, against the arrest of Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, and
History of Haiku (operating system) became self-hosting, which means Haiku can be built from within itself. On January 31, 2009, Haiku obtained a native GCC4 port; this allows modern applications, like Firefox 3, to be built on Haiku. On July 12, 2009, a first prototype version of the FreeBSD WLAN-Stack was ported to Haiku, enabling unencrypted WLAN connections as a first step. The first alpha release "Haiku R1/Alpha 1" has been released on September 14, 2009. On October 27, 2009, Haiku obtained Qt4 support via an external 3rd party port. The second alpha release ("Haiku R1/Alpha 2") was released on May 10, 2010. After having