On Fri, April 25, 2008 2:07 pm, John Oliver wrote: > This is one of the many reasons why less government is always preferable > to more.
I don't understand how this statement follows from what we are discussing. In this case, what we have is a large corporation abusing the legal processes (contract law in the EULA and legal harrassement through the law enforcement system) to extort a behavior. I will happily grant that: 1. corporate influence is way too strong right now 2. some laws need to be changed, like what is permissable in a EULA (you can't just write any damn thing you want into a deed or will, so why a EULA?) OTOH, the "less government" people (not you, John O, the political shills who say one thing and do another) resist any attempt to rein the corporations in through campaign finance reform, and they try to weight suits and civil actions against the little guy and in favor of Big $$$. This whole thing needs to go to Kooler. It's left the realm of information about Linux and entered politics, and it did it long before I contributed to the thread. Lan is now leaving the thread. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
