[Mailman-Developers] Opening up a few can o' worms here...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:03:09PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> On 7/17/02 1:08 PM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <barry@zope.com> wrote:
> > You're definitely more optimistic than I am.  When Hollywood, the
> > RIAA, and Microsoft team up against it, and the h/w manufacturers
> > capitulate or risk being tarred as un-Americans aiding cyberterrorism
> > I think we have an up-Hill (sic) battle.
> 
> But there are a whole lotta other companies banding together to build stuff
> using open standards and open software. Apple today announced new work with
> sony erriccson and cingular on GPRS and bluetooth, for instance (kewl
> stuff), and is openly supporting open standards instead of trying to lock
> people into proprietary ones.
> 
> Just because some companies are trying to wall off the internet doesn't mean
> they will. Remember, AOL tried that for years, and finally had to connect in
> and join the net, too. The net is going to prove pretty hard to kill.

You obviously have not been following the activities of Senator
Hollings, D-Disney, whose SSSCA indeed wants to make the very *design*
of Linux illegal.

Google for SSSCA.  Check it out.

*Apple* will likely be on the winning side.

Linux wont, at least not in the bill's current shape.  

Please, nobody tell Hollings about CS First Boston and the NYSE, not to
mention a large chunk of the backbone.  I wanna see what happens when
everyone just shuts their Linux boxes down because they've been
declared illegal.

Cheers,
-- jra
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