Re: Linux 2.2.20pre10

D. Stimits
2001-10-22T19:45:39Z

Nick LeRoy wrote:
>
> Wayne, everybody..
>
> I hate to belabor this point, but I'm in full agreement. If I really
> believed that Alan's boycott would have *any* positive affect, I'd fully
> support it, but the reality of the situation is that Wayne is right -- nobody
> with any real power will ever know or be able to a difference. I think that
> civil disobiediance is the only sensible action.

I wish I had a vote in Senator Hollings jurisdiction, I'd try to have
him impeached or recalled. It would never work, but it might open some
eyes.

D. Stimits, stimits@idcomm.com

>
> -Nick
>
> On Monday 22 October 2001 12:21, Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:
> > It's highly unlikely that Alan withholding information from a handful of US
> > Linux users and developers will have any effect on US laws. Plenty of us
> > have complained already to our elected officials, without results. The
> > number of people who would care (or even know) about Alan's security
> > boycott -- even if it includes the entire US readership of linux-kernel --
> > is vanishingly small compared to the general population, and no politician
> > is going to pay attention to such a small and dilute constituency. All a
> > policy of secrecy will accomplish is to punish US kernel hackers (who
> > probably disagree with the DMCA as much as the rest of you) and have no
> > effect on the average citizen who doesn't have a clue about either the DMCA
> > or Linux. I'm seeing a disturbing trend here; with all the talk about this
> > topic and about EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL here lately, I'm starting to think
> > linux-kernel is more about restricting information than disseminating it.
> >
> > I believe the DCMA should be treated like firearms laws or any other bad
> > laws: Fight them where possible, and disobey them where fighting them is
> > not possible.
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