Links

[John Nelson]

So what you're saying is that the greed and machinations of Hollywood and
those with vested content interests will undermine, not only the ability
of this country to compete with other nations computationally, but the 
very defense and security of this nation (which relies heavily on 
computing)?

-- John


On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Eric D. wrote:

> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:33:02 -0500
> From: Eric D. <liriodendron@mac.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Links
> 
> And another one:
> <http://www.sciam.com/2002/0302issue/0302anderson.html> (The Worldwide
> Computer). Cool concept but would be thoroughly illegal with all of the US
> Congress & Senate attempts to build "copy protection" into everything (why
> are they even trying? To do so would effectively render a computer
> ineffective... not to mention, it would give the rest of the world a _huge_
> advantage over the US in terms of technology (I guess Hollywood doesn't see
> it that way ;))