From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 9 19:33:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E69E37B406 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:33:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 78987 invoked by uid 100); 10 Oct 2001 02:32:01 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15299.45856.943333.613270@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:32:00 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011009185100.0581ac60@localhost> References: <15299.18752.343449.732026@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011009185100.0581ac60@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Brett Glass types: > At 03:26 PM 10/9/2001, NGH wrote: > >That's *exactly* what concerns me. If this horror of a law passes, > >and I wouldn't be surprised if it did, as entertainment companies > >have deep pockets and can push these things through, then one of > >three things would happen: > >1. Free or Open software would be illegal in the U.S., or > >2. Licensing, NDAs, etc. effectively make said software impossible > > to distribute, or > >3. Both of the above. > It wouldn't be bad if the GPL were finally ruled to be invalid! ;-) > However, the chance that a law restricting software or hardware in > that way would pass is virtually nil. The number of companies > affected is so huge -- and they have so much money -- that the > entertainment industry looks tiny by comparison. And many of > their industries have big, powerful lobbying organizations. The big hardware and software companies are already working on products designed to satisfy the bill - and earn them a slice of every computing product sold that uses them. See and for more information. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message