On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Orna Agmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I made myself a snapshot, (yes, i stopped copying when they started > discussing education), and it is available from > > http://tx.technion.ac.il/~agmon/protocol.html
Thanks a lot, Orna! I have a couple of comments: 1. Anybody else getting flashbacks of "Yes, Minister?" ;) The parts where PM Eitan tried to get a coherent answer out of a public servant could have just been translated and put into that show. 2. Someone should show PM Eitan a copy of the letter of that Peruvian sentator at (http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html). I have CCed him, but if anyone knows a way of guaranteeing that I'd be happy. In particular, Mr. Eitan seems to be ignoring the fact that the information the state holds belongs to its citizens, and it has a responsibility to make sure citizens can access that information. 3. Was anyone else dissatisfied with the very rough explanation of open source licenses? It seems that the explanation contained a garbled version of the GPL and the LGPL. (Mr. Eitan: good explanations of what one can and can't do with free software are to be had here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html http://www.opensource.org/licenses/) 4. I was sort of disappointed how nobody gave the obvious answer to "Are the programs ready?" (They will be if you spend 10% as much as you currently spend on funding MS on funding Israeli developers.) 5. Not regarding the discussion, but about something I found out: does it not better anyone else that the smallest two-bit dot-com with zero funding gives its employees an e-mail address, and yet our Knesset Members have a *netvision address*? 6. Related question: (it was also featured in the discussion) Perhaps as a "nae doresh nae makayem", we can start requiring Knesset memebers to have OpenPGP keys, accessible from their official Knesset home page. Perhaps it will sharpen their view of what digital signatures actually give and don't give. Plus, it will give us a secure way to communicate with our elected representatives without any half-competent cracker who 0wnz a router managing to listen in. -- Moshe Zadka ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
