[ale] Two awesome essays on open source and copyright

[aaron]

I could not get the cache: translation URL's of the Dr. Edgar David 
Villanueva Nuñez letter to come up for me so I dug up the original and 
piped through Google's language tool:

Original Spanish text:
http://www.gnu.org.pe/rescon.html

xlation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org.pe%2Frescon.html&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

On Sunday 05 May 2002 22:26, you wrote:
> There are two really spectacular essays I've just been made away of.
> The first was also on slashdot yesterday, so you may have heard of it
> already, but if not, check it out.  Apparently Peru is trying to pass
> a bill requiring all government software purchases be free software.
> The local MS rep wrote a letter expaining the errors in the bill and
> Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez, Congressman of the Republica of
> Perú, wrote back explaining in fine detail the error of his arguments.
[...snip...]
> Read the letter here
> <http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TvfSi6UFJpQC:www.gnu.org.pe/resms
>eng.html+&hl=en&lr=lang_en> or at:
> http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TvfSi6UFJpQC:www.gnu.org.pe/resmse
>ng.html+&hl=en&lr=lang_en
>

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