On 03/17/2011 08:05 PM, James Morris wrote: > And what about if all the openness of the internet was lost? If the > powers that be decided all this access to knowledge dangerous for us > little people and giving us too many ideas. What if the powers that be > decided to close down all our access to this stuff? > > You'd be left with your Ubuntu Linux system.
s|Linux|GNU/Linux| ;-) GNU started in an era when network bandwidth was very limited. The FSF used to sell tapes (the big old DAT-style tapes) of software, and there are companies that sell DVDs of distros now. And there are already DVDs of subsets of Wikipedia, project Gutenberg, and of the Open Clipart Library. Download and burn them while you can. So when the net is turned off we can fall back to the postal network. And we will have more backups of sofware which is more robust. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
