On Thursday 25 July 2002 15:58, mike wrote:
Political action is futile in the UNited States. The corporations own the government, and they are no longer even discrete about it. Yesterday, a group of Congress vermin raised a bill that would allow media companies to hack your box if the suspected you of file sharing, and the fair use doctrine of the copyright code is being legislated away. This doesn't even take into effect the circus that the Microshit anti-trust trial is becoming or the DMCA.
<very OT political comment> Isn't that state of affairs a result of the citizenry abnegating their power through disuse? </vOTpc> Seriously though... Could you briefly explain what 'trust' M$ is 'anti' in the US Legal sense? Don't get me wrong, I understand what the case is about and why it is important, but we don't (so far as I know) have 'anti-trust' as a legal concept/construct in the UK. I figure the closest we come might be legal restrictions on monopolies and cartels - is that a fair equivalent? Cheers Dylan
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On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:08, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:51, you wrote:
The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea By Jon Lasser
Why Microsoft's Palladium project threatens to send Linux and open-source into exile.
Please do read this, everyone, and please could US readers consider any necessary political action.
Best Fergus