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| DATE | 2003-02-27 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Eben Moglen Essay
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Now all I need to SIZES for costumes
NY Fair Use will meet on Sunday afternoon at 11:00AM for
Coffee and planning for the NYLXS/NY Fair USe Egov-OS action
at Juniors Coffee shop, Dekalb Avenue and Flabush, in Downtown
Brooklyn.
Brunch is on NYLXS.
Be their if you want to go to DC.
Ruben
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 21:02, Dave Williams wrote:
> A good short essay in Linux User:
>
> http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue27/lud27-free_software_matters.html
>
> I personally enjoyed this paragraph:
>
> "As I have said in this space recently, one of the hottest fields of
> competition at the moment is also the largest aggregate software market
> on earth: the world's governments. More than sixty-five countries and
> dozens or hundreds of political subdivisions are actively considering
> legislation or regulations favoring the use of free software for
> government computing. National governments have begun actively
> considering use of free software for all the reasons (price,
> flexibility, power of modification - in other words, freedom) that other
> corporate and individual users also identify. But they have at least one
> additional reason for adopting free software: they suspect that
> Microsoft has done favors for the US intelligence community, embedding
> 'back doors' in Windows that permit US listeners to monitor encrypted
> communications generated using the Windows Cryptographic Applications
> Program Interface (CAPI). Last month, in an unprecedented move,
> Microsoft announced that it will release Windows source code for review
> by foreign governments, to help them evaluate whether Windows is a good
> public purchase. In addition, Microsoft will allow foreign governments
> to connect their own CAPI to Windows, supposedly in order to eliminate
> any risk that US intelligence services have embedded spy code in the
> company's products."
>
> Obviously Microsoft isn't into "Shared Source" just to be nice. It may
> be the only way to get foreign governments to trust them!
>
> Once again, their presence at an Open Source even benefits no one but
> Microsoft.
>
> - Dave
>
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> Fair Use -
> because it's either fair use or useless....
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--
Ruben Safir
NYLXS
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NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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