From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 13 7:35: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B636F37B40A for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.247.137.158.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.137.158]) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA29809; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA0C41C.ECC22C5A@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 07:35:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: Milo Hyson , Help Victims , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror References: <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <01091221054200.11412@proxy.the-i-pa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Moran wrote: > > A smarter move would be to actually support open-source in a way similar to > > the European Comission's plan of declaring closed-source to be the > > least-reliable type of software. This idea stems from the fact that with a > > closed-source product, one has to take the manufacturer's word as to it's > > stability, reliability and performance. With open-source, everyone can see > > what makes it tick and what makes it crap-out. > > I heard that some place in South America was getting ready to pass some > laws or something to this effect. This is an excellent move on the part > of a country, if you ask me. I don't think you people realize why the RSA patent was issued in the first place, opening the Pandora's box of software patents of algorithms as "processes", nor what a single corporate chokepoint actually means to a nation's ability to control wide deployment of new technologies which are considered to not currently be in the overall national interest of that nation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message