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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSSCA?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost>

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

:At 02:25 AM 10/10/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
:
:>*Only* free software (and ordinary users, who don't
:>have a voice in these things) would suffer from it.  
:
:Not so. Do you have any idea how many products IBM has?
:What about the approximately one zillion products that
:contain embedded systems?

Got to side with Brett on this.  I seriously doubt Chrysler, Ford, GM, or
any other car manufacturer is about to start paying fees and royalties for
shipping electronic ignition systems, traction control systems, antilock
braking systems, etc, which are all covered under this abomination as
written.  And this is just one industry.  Do you think Sunbeam is going to
allow itself to be taxed because it ships coffee makers with digital
clocks?  I don't think so.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
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Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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