Senate panel backs development of super V-chip
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| The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Thursday asking the
| Federal Communications Commission to oversee the development of a super
| V-chip that could screen content on everything from cell phones to the
| Internet.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6200543.html
And later on they say that open systems are not secure, that Vista is needed
for control, that open source is 'unamerican'....
Academia's Open Access movement mirrors FOSS community
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| Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic
| freedom and the unimpeded exchange of information. In the last five years,
| the concepts have come full circle, with FOSS serving as a model for Open
| Access (OA), a movement within academia to promote unrestricted access to
| scholarly material for both researchers and the general public.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118139
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