Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (317 mails)

[Marcel Kühlhorn <susefan93@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 17:04 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:25:00 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>
> > * Joop Boonen <joop.boonen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > [01-18-12 04:03]:
> > > On Wed, January 18, 2012 9:51 am, Per Jessen wrote:
> > > > Just my opinion - I think openSUSE should stay far away from politics
> > > > of
> > > any kind.
> > >
> > > I don't think this is politics, this is about our internet freedom.
> > >
> > > I agree that openSUSE supports the SOPA blackout.
> >
> > +1 
>
> Same here.
>
> One thing to consider is the potential impact of a law like PIPA or SOPA 
> (the latter of which is apparently dead for the time being) on those 
> outside the US.
>
> openSUSE and open source is about freedom.  As has been pointed out 
> already, the nature of OSS projects is political.
>
> How would we like it if the US government decided to shut down the 
> openSUSE wiki because we link to the Packman repository, which contains 
> code that violates DMCA?
>
> The slippery slope here isn't participation in the blackout.  The 
> slippery slope is a large, technologically literate population losing the 
> freedom to participate in an OSS project because they can't access it - 
> and have no recourse to resolve it.  No trial, no jury.
>
> The slippery slope is the US government then pushing other companies to 
> adopt SOPA-like legislation or face trade restrictions.  Don't think 
> that'll happen?  Look at some of the leaked stuff about US efforts to get 
> SOPA-like legislation passed in Spain.  I also seem to remember something 
> about a similar law in Canada.
>
> Jim
1+

For the EU they're already planning ACTA witch is pretty much the
european counterpart to SOPA. There was an interesting talk at 28C3 [1]
at that topic, the europeans among us should watch it.

Marcel

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upz34kUWysk