Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:39:43 -0600 | From | "D. Stimits" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10 |
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Nick LeRoy wrote: > > On Monday 22 October 2001 11:34, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, bill davidsen wrote: > > > And who will be maintaining the world and us-castrated kernel > > > source? I can't imagine anything worse for the security of this > > > country than not allow computer users access to security issues. > > > > Don't worry, there are more than enough kernel hackers > > outside of the US to keep maintaining the kernel. > > > > The worst that could happen is that the US cripples > > itself by not allowing the kernel hackers outside the > > US to publish security info to people in the US, but > > only to the rest of the world. > > > > That's tough, they're a democratic country, they can > > change the law if it hurts them too much. > > Rik... > > I *wish* it were that simple. If you don't think that a least some of us > *try*, you're kidding yourself. The real problem, IMHO, is that the > electorate of our country no longer has any real power or control over the > government -- it's the corporations that do. Money talks, so the saying > goes. He who has the gold makes the rules. > > So, please don't punish all of us for the acts of our corrupt system. We > just try to make it better in whatever ways we can. FWIW, the ACLU, EEF, > etc. are our best hope for a free society.
In one location, I see senator Hollings listed as party "Democrat-Disney". Disney is another spot to boycott, they are trying to have Linux and open source o/s's declared illegal to even touch copyright media...not as a web server, a home machine, or anything (say bye to IBM's Linux efforts). I think the vote for this killer SSSCA is somewhere around the 25th of this month, so you better hurry.
D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com
(PS: I always suspected Mickey Mouse was a member of the Taliban)
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