ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/22/07, Alan <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Yes, but again the US cant enforce its laws against other countries.
> > it is not the world govt/world police, and about time they woke up smelt
> > the damned coffee and realised that.
>
> The US thinks differently. Its accused for example of simply removing
> people from other countries to interrogate or torture. The Microsoft v
> ATT case if you bother to read it is relevant because Red Hat is based in
> the USA (as are many of the contributors).
>
> > > In addition a US citizen providing the URL of the livna repository is
> > > committing an offence (The 2600 magazine case)
> >
> > I thought the US had a thing called the ammendement free speach or some
> > thing, I guess this does not extend to typed speach :)
>
> Nope - common misunderstanding - political speech not arbitary speech. So
> your right to object is protected not your right to give the URL
>
> > law so I dont really care too much for it, but it seems reasonable that
> > if threatened they could very easily be disolved in US and move to a more
> > legally sane and realistic country.
>
> If you move it and it is doing things not legal in the US then US people
> can't contribute.
>
> > I guess what they say about the US is true "everybody sues everybody" :)
>
> Yep.
>

Things are apparently more bleak than I thought. I find this
surprisingly depressing.


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