* Purple Shirt [Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:33:17 ]:
I want SuSE to include deCSS with their distribution but I will never see this happen because its all about the money these days. I know they would have to exclude deCSS from the US version but last I knew deCSS wasn't outlawed in Europe. But no we just sit back and let somebody else take on the fight and muddle with some other stuff nobody cares about when they have trampled down every fucking right to do anything with media.
Using a program like deCSS also violates German laws. We just won't do something that's illegal in Germany or would violate patents or license restrictions valid for Germany/EU. Yes, we want to do Business, *stay* in it and not risk the company. What's wrong with that? Would you rather like to see us going bankrupt because of the costs of the legal actions that are bound to happen? Philipp Philipp -- Linux only became possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away. Ingo Molnar on linux-kernel