[Cialug] vote

[David Champion]

D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:52:23AM -0600, Academician Kula wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:29:58AM -0600, admin@c0wzftp.com wrote:
>>
>>[general off-topic political comments ellided]
> 
> 
>>Folks, I'd hate to see this list devolve to this. Could we cut it
>>off here, please?
> 
> 
> THANK YOU.
> 
> Freedom is really "on the march," at least on the computers of
> most of the people on this mailing list.  That's something, at
> least, I'm happy to read about and talk about on this mailing
> list.
> 

For now... but just because we enjoy a huge amount of Freedom in our 
little corner of the world doesn't mean that will continue to be the 
case. Complacency will lose you that freedom.

One of my biggest fears is that with the current administratioin's 
policies towards things like the EPA, the FCC, the Patriot Act, the 
DMCA, the Microsoft anti-trust case, ... , how confident do you feel 
that lawsuits involving the defence of Open Source / Free Software will 
get a fair shake? They've pretty much proven that they will ignore 
science and public opinion in favor of corporate interests.

Fortunately the only big OSS related case pending is the SCO case, and 
it would be tough for any judge to blow that one. But, you've got some 
of the same parties involved in this case as the MS case, and look how 
that turned out.

-dc