On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:23:14AM -0400, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: > > I think it's actually worse than that. It might get to the point > where only a "certified" operating system may connect to the Internet > in the USA; congress having been wrongly convinced by the media lobbys > that crackers running something like GNU/Hurd could break through the > protection of "intellectual property" rights.
that's futile. who will care when we have our own free internet [1] [1] like, see http://seattlewireless.net/ > I would think that an OS like the Hurd with limited (political) > resources might have a hard time in that environment. did you mean an OS like GNU, or a set of servers like the Hurd? i myself only see political implications in the system as a whole. -- Robert Millan make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Stop. Another world is possible - Just say no to genocide
