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From: Florian Weimer <Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:33:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zo0wnup5.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203251522.JAA62284@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> <001b01c1d417$7ec599a0$0100007f@localdomain.wni.com.wirelessnetworksinc.com>

"Herman Oosthuysen" <Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com> writes:

> The obvious solution is to continue the way Richard Stallman envisaged:
> ***Distribute all code in source form only - no binary distributions.***
>
> This way, the source files are protected under freedom of speech rules and
> the originator of the work is safe.

Unfortunately, this works only in the U.S.  Other countries which will
follow the US leadership in consumer suppression regulate free speech
to make it conforming to law.

I agree, though, that source-only distribution avoids many problems
and is preferable.

-- 
Florian Weimer 	                  Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart           http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
RUS-CERT                          +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-25 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-25 15:22 Jesse Pollard
2002-03-25 16:06 ` Ron Pagani / San Francisco / San Jose, CA
2002-03-25 16:09 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-03-25 22:33   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2002-03-26  0:19     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-26  2:44       ` Stephen Samuel
2002-03-26 12:18         ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-26 20:32           ` CBDTPA (Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate) son of SSSCA Andre Hedrick
2002-03-25 17:34 ` SSSCA Hits the Senate Itai Nahshon
2002-03-25 18:17   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-25 19:37     ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-03-25 20:37       ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-25 21:24         ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-03-25 22:43           ` Itai Nahshon
2002-03-26  0:25             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-25 21:29         ` Matthew D. Pitts
2002-03-26 20:30           ` Matt Reppert
2002-03-25 22:35       ` Florian Weimer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-25 20:58 Dieter Nützel
2002-03-25 21:33 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2002-03-25 17:50 Gabriel Sechan
2002-03-23  1:09 Paul G. Allen

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