From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 21 13:16:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83CC15690 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 13:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from workhorse (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23777; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:15:32 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:15:30 -0700 To: Jonathon McKitrick From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: References: <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:07 PM 1/21/2000 , Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >Can i actually make a difference? I have no money to contribute. One of the best things you can do is WRITE ABOUT IT. Online, and also to your legislator and regional newspaper. There should at least be a Daemon News article about this. > It >seems the big lobbyists (software companies) will have the eweight to >win this battle. They won it in the CCUSL, which drafted the law. In fact, the head of the committee which drafted the law was a lawyer who had recently worked for Microsoft. Guess whose interests HE had in mind! >I just realized what else this might mean... > >No used college textbooks >No used music CDs >No used video games >Paranoia that being connected to the net could result in my machine >being shut down by some hacker with 'disable' codes. Yes. And that last isn't just paranoia. It's already possible to do it with some academic releases of Microsoft products, I'm told. >The list goes on... >On the bright side, BSD open source licensing may take a stronger >hold. It'd be nice. Of course, we need to warn about the problems of the GPL, too, or that radical faction may get even more mileage from this. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message