Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate

["Matthew D. Pitts" <mpitts@suite224.net>]

This bill seems to be an extension of the DMCA... at least to me. And as far
as I am conserned, this bill will not get very far.

Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Herman Oosthuysen <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate


> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Herman Oosthuysen wrote:
>
> > The bill says that the protection scheme must be open source, so no M$
> > tax.
>
> The fact that the source code is available doesn't give you
> the right to use it, if some company has a patent on the
> technology ...
>
> I hope this law will be so absolutely crippling to the USA
> that the rest of the world will see the devastating effects
> before having the time to pass similar laws too.
>
> Rik
> --
> Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
>
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