Interview with Richard M. Stallman
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| It is important to know this because we will always face pressure, from those
| who are powerful and would like to take away our freedom, to surrender our
| freedom—and they frequently offer us something attractive in exchange. For
| instance, B’liar wanted to abolish the Rights of Englishmen, and to serve his
| American master, Bush, faithfully; so he offered Britons “protection” from
| this or that, plus the imagined idea that he influences his master on their
| behalf through the “special relationship”.
|
| The same thing happens in our field, too. Companies making consumer
| electronics products want to impose DRM on us; they want to do this in
| programs that they receive as free software, then pass them on to us in such
| a way that we do not have the freedom to change them. So they invite us to
| allow our software to be tivoized, and offer us, as an inducement, that our
| software will be “more popular” if we cave in.
|
| The only way to keep our freedom is to have the steadfastness to reject those
| tempting offers. We have to move to a license like GPL version 3 that will
| stop these tempters in their tracks.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/interview_with_richard_stallman
White House routinely destroyed emails
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| THE BUSH administration has destroyed countless emails during a crucial part
| of US history in the interests, it claims, of saving disk space.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/18/spooks-read-everything
SHI*tel and Microsoft do this too (examples below). Corruption, corruption,
corruption probably in all cases.
Related:
Bush team deletes embarrassing emails
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| According to the Washington Post, countless e-mails to and from
| many key White House staffers have been deleted to avoid
| congressional subpoenas.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38892
Intel's anti-trust memos started vanishing from the top
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| Chairman Craig Barrett, CEO Paul Otellini and sales chief Sean Maloney
| have appeared on a list of Intel employees thought to have deleted
| e-mails possibly relevant to AMD's anti-trust lawsuit against its
| larger rival. The missing e-mails have thrust a livid state of mind
| onto AMD's lawyers who have very serious problems with Intel's
| rather lax document retention policy.
|
| [...]
|
| CEO Otellini appears to have been one of these troublesome employees.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/11/intel_tortellini_episode/
U.S. judge orders Intel to try to recover e-mails
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| Farnan gave Intel 30 days to recover as many of the missing e-mails
| as possible and to draw up a report on the steps it is taking to do
| so, Mulloy said.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070307:MTFH90775_2007-03-07_18-56-16_N06406049&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/2fbanr
AMD: Intel Destroyed Evidence in Antitrust Case
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| In an unpublished statement to the U.S. District Court of Delaware,
| AMD alleges Intel allowed the destruction of evidence in pending
| antitrust litigation.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6352
Microsoft dirty tricks, part two (Bob Cringely)
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| "So the outside vendor was Hewlett-Packard, one of Microsoft's
| hardware OEMs, which is to say Microsoft's bitch.
|
| The tape disappearance was blamed on HP, which accepted the blame,
| and the employees directly involved kept expecting there to be
| repurcussions, especially legal ones. They expected to be deposed by
| Burst lawyers. But it never happened.
|
| This was, for Microsoft, a perfect ending. ..."
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http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_4.html
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| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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