Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxx>]

If anyone's going to crack it - I'd lay money on the Russian/East Europe or 
somewhere in Asia.  They could care less about Capital hill and U.S. copy 
rights.

Cheers.  Curtis



On Monday 04 June 2001 03:19 pm, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> > In any event, there's certainly a countercurrent to UCITA, and
> > much of it comes from enterprises that have no particular interest
> > in Linux.   It might make it through in Washington State because
> > Microsoft is to Washington as the auto industry is to Michigan.
> > But as long as it isn't a Federal statute, there's nothing to
> > stop someone from doing reverse engineering in Maine or New Mexico.
>
> Well, we all know the world starts in Florida and ends in LA, but I heard a
> rumour (tell NO-ONE!!) that there are some so-called "other countries" out
> there, and one or two of them have started down the path of "civilisation".
> Some of them even have toilet paper! One of them (so I am told) even has
> enough engineering skill to write the kernel of a free UNIX-like operating
> system...
>
> Hey, when you guys in the colonies make laws they generally don't
> back-propagate here!
>
> Keith