This affects everybody unilaterally, and unless people become proactive
and oppose the Democrats and their apocalyptic police state laws, the
face of the computer industry will *become* a police state.
FWIW there's also other things that may be peripherally involved. One
that doesn't impact
So, all you guys enjoying Linux? Enjoying the benefits of Mandrake?
Well, enjoy it while you can, because if Democrat Fritz Hollings
(Senator, South Carolina, lobbied via $300,000 USD from the
Entertainment Industry) has his way, this bill will get passed and Open
Source could be a thing of
: [newbie] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, software
development]
| I don't really understand the furor over this bill. It is obviously
grossly
| unconstitutional and, even if it passes, will not withstand the court
cases
| and the Supreme Court. The only thing it's going to succeed
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:15 pm, Kenn Yahoo opened a hailing frequency
and transmitted:
not to bring up a sore subject, but after last year's presidential
election disaster, i'll no longer be surprised at ANYTHING the supreme
court decides ...
i would second that, but i am sure it would
I know, the bloody thing puts it there automatically. But the email service
is good, and well, it didn't used to be Microsoft! :)
James
Did you know your post is carrying a MS advert?
Thanks, I needed that. *chuckle*
Lee
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 05:09 am, you wrote:
I don't really
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, James Thomas wrote:
I know, the bloody thing puts it there automatically. But the email service
is good, and well, it didn't used to be Microsoft! :)
James
And it's not totally out of place in this case...M$ is as against the bill
as we are, or so I read...
Did