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| DATE | 2002-05-08 |
| FROM | marco
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: edited commentary
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This is some stuff I removed either b/c I didn't understand
the point which was trying to be made or I found it misleading.
>>If you listen to the DMCA fair use exemption hearings at
the Library of Congress
link?
>>and making claims that only their OS is authorized on
certain machines
eg?
>>Microsoft is moving rapidly to a model of "OS assurance"
and "Automatic upgrades" in the name of security and content
management protection.
What are these terms? How are they related.
Tony pointed out, quite correctly, that the Holling's bill
is ultimately a starting point of for re-education of the
public and a ????negotiating point??? for the assault on the
4th and 1st amendments.
Finally, on the issue of developing friends and allies.
Specifically, they have to be cultivated. Boucher is not
powerful by himself, but if we get Weiner to become vocal on
this issue as well, we WILL turn the tide, especially since
Weiner was Chuck Schumer's chief of staff. Right now, we
need to find him, wherever he speaks, and ask him about this
issue, over and over again.
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New Yorker Linux Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
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