Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:59:29 -0700 From: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <20011010155929.B7038@darkstar.gte.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org>; from ragnar@sysabend.org on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:39:25AM -0700 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011010101446.053c3560@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110100931360.45215-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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This is beginning to sound like a cyberpunk novel. You can almost imagine the hero protagonist of the story hacking together an expert system out of automobile control systems and ported open source software. Will we end up scrapping missile guidance systems in order to have CPU that will run unkeyed software? Forget the data havens, be ready to move operations to some country that won't play along with this stuff. [RC] On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:39:25AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote: > 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 <alaric@alaric.org.uk> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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