[ale] those of you reading this while within USjurisdictionshould have a care....

[James P. Kinney III]

Hear! Hear! Good retort!

I am more and more in favor of just having the entire patent and
copyright offices shutdown. 

Ideas are things to be shared and built upon. Not locked away in a
closet for personal use only without exorbitant fees or penalties.

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 14:36, Matthew Brown wrote:
> This is ludicrous.  IMHO it all started when we decided that ideas are
> things to own.
> 
> Best regards,
> Matthew Brown, President
> CorData, Inc.
> O: (770) 795-0089
> F: (404) 806-4855
> E: matthew.brown at cordata.net
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:19 PM
> To: Dow Hurst
> Cc: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] those of you reading this while within US
> jurisdictionshould have a care....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:30, Dow Hurst wrote:
> .  I want to click thru but *fear* the consequences. 
> >  Sounds crazy for an American citizen working in an academic, normally
> 
> > more free than the private sector in what is allowed, environment!
> That 
> > is the new reality we live in, where the security, legal, and
> political 
> > professions are looking for examples to explore the power of the new 
> > laws.  
> 
> I clicked right through, lied the whole way about where I'm from. My
> rational is I am in charge of machines. I need to be fully informed of
> what I am installing and why. 
> 
> I see this is a publicity stunt and a political ploy to slap DMCA in the
> groin (well deserved, I'll add). As such, the source code for kernels
> _without_ the patch will also be subject to DMCA regulations.
> 
> What a load of crap.
> 
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