Messages in this thread | | | From | "Matthew D. Pitts" <> | Subject | Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:29:23 -0500 |
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This bill seems to be an extension of the DMCA... at least to me. And as far as I am conserned, this bill will not get very far.
Matthew ----- Original Message ----- From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:37 PM Subject: Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Herman Oosthuysen wrote: > > > The bill says that the protection scheme must be open source, so no M$ > > tax. > > The fact that the source code is available doesn't give you > the right to use it, if some company has a patent on the > technology ... > > I hope this law will be so absolutely crippling to the USA > that the rest of the world will see the devastating effects > before having the time to pass similar laws too. > > Rik > -- > Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". > > http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ > > - > 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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