ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[jdow]

From: "Mike McCarty" <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net>

> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:29:47 +1000,
>>   Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Alan 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.
>>
>>  Unfortunately for the rest of the world, it can because it has the 
>> largest
>
> Fortunately or unfortunately, as one's viewpoint is.
>
> The Federal Govt of the USA has jurisdiction over the entire
> face of the Earth except within the States, because the US Constitution
> says so. That's how the US Govt arrested Manuel Noriega.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Most likely US corporate interests have influenced your country's laws.
>> For example if you are in the EU, members are supposed to be enacting 
>> DMCA
>> like laws. Software patents could still end up being forced upon EU 
>> members
>> as well.
>
> We really need to repeal (at least portions of) the DMCA. It won't be
> long, I trow. The RIAA fought tooth and nail to prevent radio stations
> from playing music. When the RIAA and corresponding TV (forget the
> acronym) and movie associations figure out how to make money from
> easily available stuff, then we'll see the end of encryption, region
> codes, etc. on their own.

It's time to stop the political hate fest. But do watch this video first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAtNILh6uY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2F

Then FOAD.
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