> From: Davd Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Right. It is illegal in most Western countries, > > including all of the US > > and Europe. A copyright such as this in China is > > hardly worth the paper > > it is printed on. > > I beg to differ. Asian nations have long learned to > interpret intellectual property laws any way they > wish. Their range of tricks is enormous and they set > things up so that the resulting legal battle would be > excruciatingly long and costly for westerners who complain.
And what would this theory gain them? Do they control Microsoft? Windows? MS-DOS?, Apple? MacOS?, IBM? OS/400? TSO/ISPF/CICS/DOS Other mainframe OS's?, FreeBSD? OpenBSD? NetBSD?, AthenaOS?, BeOS?... The _*REAL*_ enemy is Microsoft Colluding with hardware manufacturers to push Palladium/Trusted Computing DRM on all future hardware. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
