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It is under "Take Action" paragraph of http://www.gnu.org
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Take Action
Urgent: Please visit http://www.digitalspeech.org and help resist the media companies' campaign to impose restrictions on what your computer can do.
European Citizens: European Commission is pushing to make all ideas patentable, proposal written by BSA. This pageexplains everything and tells you how you can help prevent this disaster.
US Citizens: Please sign both the Petition Against Software Patents and the Anti-DMCA Petition.
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 07:21:46
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I moved it here bozden, it is more important than posting it in the asp forums would suggest 
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davemaxwell
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 07:40:30
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| I "signed" both of those, plus I've already written both my senators AND my US Congressman in protest of both these measures, plus the one being considered now requiring security measures in all hardware used in the US. |
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 07:43:17
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me too,
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plus the one being considered now requiring security measures in all hardware used in the US.
is this the 'fritz' chip anti piracy thing ? if so, I can only see its introduction sounding the death nell for microsoft and Intel. |
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 08:09:08
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I moved it here bozden, it is more important than posting it in the asp forums would suggest
Being awake for 24 hours does this  ... I thought it was "all other subjects"...
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PeeWee.Inc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 08:12:00
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| I see this a while ago and signed it. |
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 08:12:47
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| it wasn't in the wrong place, I just thought it important enough to be in the announcements |
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 08:48:28
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| Yes, it is the same thing, I can only hope that this will have completely the opposite effect to the one they disire, and will move people away from microsoft and mainstream software altogether. |
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 09:04:21
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Yes, it is the same thing, I can only hope that this will have completely the opposite effect to the one they disire, and will move people away from microsoft and mainstream software altogether.
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PeeWee.Inc
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 09:09:46
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why do you all hate microsoft, everyone slates them but never says why  |
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HuwR
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 09:39:09
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if you read up on this fritz chip, you will not require an answer to that question, but here is my personal opinion.
Microsofts sole purpose of existance is to accomplish world domination of the computer market, it does this using aggressive marketting and buyouts, while this may be great for microsoft, it is not the best thing for you the user because it is virtually impossible for anyone to compete with them, so you get a computer world which is dictated by microsofts vision, and not based on diversity and freedom of choice. The introduction of this 'fritz' chip will only make their stranglehold greater.
For exampl, lets say this chip was already in use in all computers, and we are on the Brink of war with Iraq, so Bush phones up Intel and Microsoft and says, hey guys, we want to blow up Iraq, can you revoke all their licenced software, OK, says Intel and Microsoft. ALL COMPUTERS IN IRAQ USING INTEL PROCESSORS AND RUNNING WINDOWS WILL NOW STOP WORKING.
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redbrad0
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 09:47:44
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| sounds like it would be a totally different world of wars if that was to happen. but just think of all the hackers out there. someone could figure out how to break intel or MS's code and basically shut down every computer in the world. |
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PeeWee.Inc
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 09:53:03
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i never thought of it that way  |
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Posted - 18 October 2002 : 10:20:28
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ALL COMPUTERS IN IRAQ USING INTEL PROCESSORS AND RUNNING WINDOWS WILL NOW STOP WORKING
Good point Huw. This is why many countries (Germany, Russia,...) enforce Linux.
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