From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 10 9:37:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [63.86.88.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F9037B401 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id B0251756F; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA771D8F; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message