Yes, but what if one of us was planning to and didn't have access to IE? You are not the entire world. In fact, I'm in the midst of writing a proposal which might need this sort of protection.
You might also want to look back at the name of this list, which is "um-linux". Not "um-macosx". Personally, I think "oh, MacOS X can do it, so I don't care" is an obnoxious response that is really against the entire original point of this list, which is to spread Linux and free (as in freedom) software knowledge. I would know, seeing as I'm king of obnoxious responses and all. The real point, though is that the Copyright Office and government in general should not be in the business of forcing software choices any more than they absolutely have to. Essentially, this kind of move gives MS a government-mandated monopoly on a service. This is not a good move for taxpayers, from my perspective, and as a taxpayer, I have the right to complain. -DMZ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Short and sweet: >> >> "Today's notice seeks information as to whether persons filing the >> electronic-only preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright >> Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use >> Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a >> work." >> >> > I am not planning soon to"preregister an unpublished work" to protect > against "pre-release infringement", so it seems that I am not eligible > to comment. I could also easily download and install Internet Explorer > 5.2.3 (>= 5.1) for Mac OS X, so I would not "experience difficulties". > - George Koehler >
