Re: Software Warning?

["joddie noblit" <drakahn@xxxxxxxx>]

jesh thx fo the info on this.
ill get on my soap box, and at the risk of sounding like some paranoid
militia member begin ranting. :)

these kinds of laws are geting passed more and more nowadays, and the
actions pepole take to prevent them are unnerving. more and more i hear
pepole buying the bs that they (the government) send us that its for our own
good, or i also hear "it dont aply to me." (so i dont care) well more and
more i see the big brother of 1984 happening nowadays, it seems the
governement is slowly trying to stip us of our rights as suposedly protected
by the bill of rights and the constitution, well i think thats the problem
is we are taught that the checks and balances will protect us of our rights.
but the truth is that we must protect our own rights and any excuses are not
acceptable. it dont aply to me is bs because sooner or later it will.
any how this is my 2 cents and ill get off my soap box and let the discution
continue :)

> thanks for sharing... i followed a few of your links... it appears that
this
> is legit, but not likely to ever happen... this is what
www.badsoftware.com
> had to say:
>
> UCITA is primarily supported by software publishers, some computer
> manufacturers, and some banks.
>
> UCITA has been opposed by:
>
>      Software developers
>      Every consumer advocacy organization that has looked at it
>      Large software customers
>      Librarians
>      Other independent information content developers (writers,
> photographers)
>      Entertainment industry
>      Magazine and newspaper publishers
>      Many lawyers and law professors
>
> .UCITA has been sharply criticized by the United States' Federal Trade
> Commission.
>
> i dunno if anyone else thought it was funny, but Librarians? i guess i
> understand that they deal with a lot of digital content now, accessing
other
> libraries online and all that... just caught me off guard... :)
>
> >
> > LINUX/ OPEN SOURCE
> > Why We Must Fight UCITA
> > UCITA is a proposed law, designed by the proprietary software
> > developers, who are now asking all 50 states of the US to adopt it. If
> > UCITA is adopted, it will threaten the free software community with
> > disaster.
> > http://linuxtoday.com/stories/15948.html
> >
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