Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick LeRoy <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:46:04 -0500 |
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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.
-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/
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