On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:06 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: <snip> > Probly the most Draconian software limitations exist in > Northern Europe. Sweden's fixin to outlaw everything as far as > user free rights and access to proprietary software (ie, > illegal to even d/l, a pending law, but close to passing). > What's not on the block for oulawin, is heavily taxed. The > only places to not cross paths with copyright holders and > such, is where everything is not un-legal or unchallenged (ie, > lawless, no lawyers or politicians). Antarctica? Syria? Iran? > N. Korea? ... </snip>
You may be right, Tom. But here's how it works : It's not just software. We Scandinavians live in totalitarian states, where the gap between what's illegal and what's mandatory is microscopic. Now, having all those politicians, suits, bureaucrats, desk-weenies and lawyers harassing us all the time is - of course - incompatible with life. Accordingly, we don't care about the law anymore : In Norway and Sweden the national pass-time is bootlegging, in Denmark it's moonshining and smuggling. Likewise with software : DVD-Jon of Norway is a national hero, no matter what a judge on the M$-payroll decides. Kaj Haulrich Denmark. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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