> Despite Alan's Orwellian paranoia or anyone else's Dilbertesque
> fantasies, this is not the appropriate nor even close to the best
> forum for political activism....I vote we create a topical list or
> move the arguments for/against even to another mail medium or
> hypertext dump. Wiki anyone?
A new list is already created, read the list earlier today.
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follow up to this there please.
and you are wrong James... it's not Orwellian paranoia. Before Skylarov,
you might have been right, but I can picture at least a dozen MAJOR software
authors who could be charged with DMCA violations the same way. Alan is one
of them, by his own admission. Should some big corporation feel threatened
by his authorship, they could charge that RedHat (his employer) sells his
code (even though he gives it away also, as does ElcomSoft, they give it
away crippled but working and sell a key for full decryption)... and thus he
would be fair game exactly the same as Dmitry.
Seth
