Subject: RE: there is a new battlefield folks
From: William F. Fulton (fulton@gci.net)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 23:45:54 AKST
I'm with you one hundred percent but screw the letter we need to make a
public showing protest this is really bad news and I dont believe we can
aford to sit on the sidelines of this one Linux is my income and my passion
I wont let them take either of those away lets get some letters to the
editor in the paper to you'd be suprised at howmany people read those
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Scott Johnson
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:42 PM
To: William F. Fulton
Cc: Aklug
Subject: Re: there is a new battlefield folks
This is a bunch of fascist BS and I think we need to send a message to OUR
Senator that this type of legislation is an abomination and to have him
support, let alone SPONSOR such a piece of trash is unacceptable. We should
write an official letter from the Alaska Linux Users Group protesting this
nonsense.
Common... who's with me? The very future of this boards existence is in
jeopardy. You may think I'm nuts but this is EXACTLY how the DMCA came into
being by people not taking it serious enough, or saying "that'll never
pass," yet it did. If we don't do something to stop this now, we may one
day regret it.
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "William F. Fulton" <fulton@gci.net>
To: "Val" <vkirsis@hotmail.com>; "Jerry" <jake1@cybrtown.com>;
<aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: 21 March, 2002 22:56
Subject: there is a new battlefield folks
>
> Well they did it SEN. Stevens along with his partner in crime from SC have
> officialy introduced the SSSCA under a new name the Consumer Broadband and
> Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA)bill (S.2048): This is bad very
bad
> It will make Linux and other open source software as we know it illegal
same
> with building your own box at home or using non government approved parts
or
> software on any network. If I'm starting to sound a little freaked out its
> because I am come on guys/gals we need to pull together on this call Sen
> Stevens E-mail him make noise make lots and lots of noise heres some links
> for more info
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/21/2344228&mode=thread&tid=103
>
> http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010921_eff_sssca_alert.html
>
>
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