Chantal wrote: > For example, earlier this spring when Industry Canada and Heritage > Canada rolled into Montreal on their cross country hearings on reviewing > Canadas Copyright Act ... > ... there were the two of us and some other freaks from > Universite de Montreal and Ian from Zero Knowledge (Crytography) > testifying somewhat obliquely on open source and related issues > pertaining to the Act.
A lot of people in our community did hear about the hearings, and there were a lot of e-mailed submissions (there's a webpage where you can read them all). I was at the Toronto hearing, along with several other opensource people, one Gnupg developer, one RedHat rep, and I understand that the Ottawa hearing went similarly. Having an "official CLUE voice" might be useful, although then we have to worry about whether all our other grassroots voices might be subverting our own cause; the fact that a lot of semirelated elements of the community showed up on their own and each presented some facets of the issue may have been helpful too. We'll have to wait and see what legislation actually gets tabled; they're not allowed to give sneak previews, but I'm still hoping that Canada remains part of the free world. -- Anthony de Boer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
