Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:35:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com>, Help Victims <fight_terrorism@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <3BA0C41C.ECC22C5A@mindspring.com> References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <01091221054200.11412@proxy.the-i-pa.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > > A smarter move would be to actually support open-source in a way similar to > > the European Comission's plan of declaring closed-source to be the > > least-reliable type of software. This idea stems from the fact that with a > > closed-source product, one has to take the manufacturer's word as to it's > > stability, reliability and performance. With open-source, everyone can see > > what makes it tick and what makes it crap-out. > > I heard that some place in South America was getting ready to pass some > laws or something to this effect. This is an excellent move on the part > of a country, if you ask me. I don't think you people realize why the RSA patent was issued in the first place, opening the Pandora's box of software patents of algorithms as "processes", nor what a single corporate chokepoint actually means to a nation's ability to control wide deployment of new technologies which are considered to not currently be in the overall national interest of that nation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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