On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 13:20:34 +0000 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? > I'm not at all sure. Of course not. It won't be satisfactory until all Political interference in the affairs of software and the internet is strictly forbidden. The internet is the last chance we have at a truly free market of ideas, as Adam Smith envisioned it, and has been so extensively corrupted by government protected monopolies like MS, the RIAA, and the MPAA. > I'm curious as to why Europeans are not trying to get the principle of > > the GPL incorporated into European law. Wouldn't this be better than > hedging around trying to determin what is patentable and what it not. Absolutely. This should be the focus *everywhere*, so that we can prove William Gibson wrong, and the future *will* be distribute evenly (see my manifesto). However one might feel about Richard Stallman and his ideology, the FSF, the GPL, and the like are the only things standing between *our* vision of the internet as an extension of the human nervous system for communication and exchange, and another Big Media Enterprise. Rest assured, I believe Information Will Be Free. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have.
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