&as far as the grass being greener on the other side (or not, well 
actually..  simply "not"), see also:  
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/me_on_mccain_on_technology.html

-a

Fred Benenson wrote:
> Yes this post was widely suspected as being a republican troll. The  
> comments on slashdot help clarify this.
>
> F
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Gavin Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I haven't been following this in much detail, but
>>
>> (a) It seems the detailed version of the plan is still linked from the
>> page (in a PDF, link at the bottom). It's still available and in
>> existence; it's just presented in condensed form first.
>>
>> (b) At first glance, I don't spot any substantive changes (and I  
>> recall
>> seeing a statement from the campaign that there weren't any  
>> substantive
>> changes).
>>
>> (c) It doesn't appear that copyright reform was ever really part of  
>> the plan.
>>
>> Gavin
>>
>> On Mon, September 22, 2008 10:33 am, Matthias Mehldau wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Although this mailinglist is not much about daily politics, I want to
>>> remark that there has been already a change - on the opinion of  
>>> Obama:
>>>
>>> "... Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as  
>>> it
>>> was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and
>>> replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed
>>> with the choice of Joe Biden before, ..." [1, slashdot]
>>>
>>> You'll find an easy to read diff on the changes right here:
>>> http://versionista.com/diff/JAS9LMr5qU7q8BSroV8KzQ/
>>>
>>> It seems that he mainly lost profile in making government more
>>> transparent and even the text about privacy is nearly only a fith of
>>> what there was written before - and the "reform our copyright"  
>>> changed
>>> more or less to "protect the us copyright".
>>>
>>> What to do with him?
>>>
>>> best regards from the other side of the ocean,
>>> weatherfrog
>>>
>>> [1] Slashdot: Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions
>>> http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/22/0526237.shtml
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