From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 17:53:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C07337B406 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00209; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 18:53:17 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009185100.0581ac60@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:53:14 -0600 To: NGH , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: SSSCA? In-Reply-To: <20011009212648.94725.qmail@web11908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <15299.18752.343449.732026@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 03:26 PM 10/9/2001, NGH wrote: >That's *exactly* what concerns me. If this horror of a law passes, >and I wouldn't be surprised if it did, as entertainment companies >have deep pockets and can push these things through, then one of >three things would happen: > >1. Free or Open software would be illegal in the U.S., or >2. Licensing, NDAs, etc. effectively make said software impossible > to distribute, or >3. Both of the above. It wouldn't be bad if the GPL were finally ruled to be invalid! ;-) However, the chance that a law restricting software or hardware in that way would pass is virtually nil. The number of companies affected is so huge -- and they have so much money -- that the entertainment industry looks tiny by comparison. And many of their industries have big, powerful lobbying organizations. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message