On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:46:12PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Sorry, I just don't think they'l suceed at nuking free software. Too much big business depends on it now. Vigilance is good, but when push comes to shove, the ones that are trying to screw it up won't succeed.
Besides, fi the US outlaws it, like, oh, stem cell research, it'll just slide overseas out of the US jurisdiction, and the US will find that over time, it'll be ata competitive disadvantage because of it...
You haven't been following the SSSCA/CBDPTA traffic, have you.
It will be illegal, but more importantly, it simply won't *run* -- you can't store data on the hard drive if you don't have the encryption keys to talk to it.
Cheers, -- jra
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