Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:45:48 -0600 | From | "D. Stimits" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 |
| |
Nick LeRoy wrote: > > Wayne, everybody.. > > I hate to belabor this point, but I'm in full agreement. If I really > believed that Alan's boycott would have *any* positive affect, I'd fully > support it, but the reality of the situation is that Wayne is right -- nobody > with any real power will ever know or be able to a difference. I think that > civil disobiediance is the only sensible action.
I wish I had a vote in Senator Hollings jurisdiction, I'd try to have him impeached or recalled. It would never work, but it might open some eyes.
D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
> > -Nick > > On Monday 22 October 2001 12:21, Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote: > > It's highly unlikely that Alan withholding information from a handful of US > > Linux users and developers will have any effect on US laws. Plenty of us > > have complained already to our elected officials, without results. The > > number of people who would care (or even know) about Alan's security > > boycott -- even if it includes the entire US readership of linux-kernel -- > > is vanishingly small compared to the general population, and no politician > > is going to pay attention to such a small and dilute constituency. All a > > policy of secrecy will accomplish is to punish US kernel hackers (who > > probably disagree with the DMCA as much as the rest of you) and have no > > effect on the average citizen who doesn't have a clue about either the DMCA > > or Linux. I'm seeing a disturbing trend here; with all the talk about this > > topic and about EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here lately, I'm starting to think > > linux-kernel is more about restricting information than disseminating it. > > > > I believe the DCMA should be treated like firearms laws or any other bad > > laws: Fight them where possible, and disobey them where fighting them is > > not possible. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |