From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:20:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:19:58 -0500 Received: from clueserver.org ([206.163.47.224]:12295 "HELO clueserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 18:19:46 -0500 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010301151132.06f00820@clueserver.org> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:24:13 -0800 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Olsen Subject: OT: UCITA in Oregon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry for the off-topic message, but this will be of interest to some here. There are a couple of bills being proposed in the Oregon legislature. One to stop UCITA and one to adopt it. (For those of you not familiar with UCITA, it is a nasty little provision being pushed that would make click-thru licences and all the other variants binding, as well as outlawing reverse engineering and other things.) More info on it can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/npss/june2000/position.ht m and http://www.ieeeusa.org/forum/grassroots/ucita/ It turns out the person who has sponsored the bill to enact UCITA into law is the head of the Judiciary committee, so this could get interesting. If you are interested in testifying against UCITA contact Damon Elder at delder1@gladstone.uoregon.edu. He is the intern for Representative Phil Barnhart. Thanks! --- | Terrorists - The Boogiemen for a new Millennium. | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmermann unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com/~alan/ |alan@ctrl-alt-del.com|