On Wednesday 16 February 2005 03:56 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:52:22 +0100 > > Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: > > > It ain't all bad, a united Europe has more of a chance of > > > standing up to this sort of corporate extortion, IMO. > > > > Well Joe, first and foremost : EUrabia will never be united. On the > > contrary, it is decaying rapidly. Exactly like its predecessor, > > the Soviet Union. > > Hey, no argument there. All authoritarian regimes are doomed to failure, > according to the SNAFU principle, dare I post it again: > > http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/s/SNAFUprinciple.html > > 'United' doesn't have to mean under the current EU model, though. I meant > it in a more general sense. > > > Thirdly, the present Patent issue is just "delayed", not removed. > > No matter what the various parliaments (including the EU > > Parliament) decides, the Politburo doesn't care one bit. > > Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia etc.. still "owns" the Commissars, the > > Eurocrats and politicians. > > Again, no argument, but it at least shows that there is enough vocal > opposition amongst 'the people' to snap some of these autocrats out of > their blissful reverie. That in and of itself, you are correct, is not > enough though. > > The best way to defeat authority, in the end, is simply to ignore it. Let > MS patent everything they want, the hackers that started this F/OSS thang > will, as they always have, simply route around the obstacles, and the users > will keep on comin' on over to a better deal. And *he * says that the OT list is opinionated.
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