What are consequences (the lack of freedom on the USA)

[Jim - 815 beta]

Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:

>Em Seg, 2003-09-22 às 18:54, Alan Cox escreveu:
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>>Fedora being US based is not a solution and was not a solution for those
>>non US citizens entitled to use some things that US citizens are forbidden.
>>Its no different to everything else - multiregion DVD players are the norm
>>except in the USA, but that doesn't mean US citizens can safely import
>>them or that the ability to import them 'solves the problem'
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>>For non US citizens solving the problem means solving it outside the USA
>>without US companies help. 
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>It's very ironic. The country that claims to be "free", where people
>**think** that have freedom to do anything they want, can't use a
>inofensive DVD disc made on another region, or can't listen to MP3
>music. 
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The problem doesn't lie in the wake of freedom for mp3 and DVD playing. 
The problem lies in the "Art" of making a buck from an idea or a technology.

These ideal for paying welfare to someone's thoughts or works well 
beyond the actual worth if the idea or the tecnology is simply called 
greed and intellectual property.

You can look at the richest people in america and see that most of them 
were college dropouts. But they still claim intellectual property.

The masses are set on commercialism and go along with the flow that 
corporatism has levereged against the user that demands a free operating 
system. This is where ogg format. the Linux kernel, the GPL licensing 
and the forward movement of Linux is here for. SCO and other companies 
that demand money for ideas are the trouble in our mesh. Intelligence 
and Freedom are very important and are being infringed upon.

But like walking in a "bad neighborhood" we have to watch out for the 
ones that take money from others by force. Linux and the community are 
trying to stay out of the "bad neighborhoods".

We all have our countries of origin and all have different laws. Of 
course this list is not to discuss the political differences, just the 
free operating system for computers.

Jim