Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:58:20 +0100 | From | harry <> | Subject | Re: Broadcom BCM4306/BCM2050 support |
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A Penguin wrote: >In the UK, for instance, one has to purchase a license to >use a receiver (you know, some Sony Walkman). This is, in my >opinion, extremely repressive. It would be nice for somebody >to start suing the BBC (and others) to recover damages for >the criminal trespass of "their" radio signals onto private >property. After a few such lawsuits, the ownership of such >broadcast signals would revert to the public, just like in >the US.
You need a licence to drive a car and a licence to operate a computer - now that's really repressive !
(M$, GPL or roll your own, it's much the same..)
An Other Penguin wrote: >Patents and copyrights need to be fixed, not destroyed.
hear, here.
harry. -- Truth is a commodity? I just don't buy it.
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