Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Sunday 20 January 2008 19:14 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> | Stripping DVD copy protection (CSS) from a DVD is illegal
>>
>> In America. Not in my country, thankfully.
>
> You must have not heard. It seems like just a matter of time. France, which
> seems to be headed by a Microsoft 'insider' (based on deeds and
> relationships), has already adopted such laws and the same goes for ISP "cut
> the air supply" approach, which is apparently coming to the UK. They take one
> small step at a time. It wasn't long ago that Gates tried to corrupt Russian
> diplomats for similar laws... he also works with Groves' scummy 800lb gorilla
> to eliminate Russia's migration to Linux (ALT Linux at schools and Mandriva in
> government). If you look ahead, there's more than just software patents to
> worry about. As Microsoft itself has said, "human greed known no bounds."
> Well, we ought to wake up soon and also inform others. If you think that the
> UK is safe in Brown's hand (from a digital POV), forget about it.
>
I think that the tide is turning somewhat, though. For one, Brown is
not anywhere near so far up Bush's a**e as Blair was (see nessuno's post
elsewhere on this), the BBC and Becta are under strong pressure, too.
We very much need to set the terms for the patent debate, and then we
need to begin addressing the security versus secrecy agenda (as per the
posting I made a few days ago).
Also, we need Mr Shuttleworth/Ubuntu, IBM, Red Hat, Mandriva, Sun and
others to put on some good UK and EU bashes to being explaining to
our senior politicians why losing laptops shouldn't mean loss of data
(confusing secrecy with security), why have standard admin tools like nmap
will improve network security, to make it worse (difference between keys
and locks again), and why the business-models of open-source companies
are so different to those of proprietary ones.
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