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
You know from the course of physics. Each applied force creates its counter force. If they ratify this bill, there is going to increased number of products and software to make your box more secure from the corporate hackers. Since M$ Winblows is inherently insecure and full of back doors OS, more people will look for protection in Linux. Alex ------------------- the DMCA.
mg
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
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