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Groklaw on Sun/M$ settlement
by bucy at 7:42 pm EDT, Apr 4, 2004

] More and more, it seems that the entertainment content
] businesses, including Microsoft, want to make sure no
] culture can be offered anywhere in the world by anyone
] except them and only by means of their one-way paid
] pipeline. They can't achieve that goal without killing
] free/open software. Of course, they also would have to
] shut down the openness of the internet. I begin to
] suspect they may hypocritically use "security" concerns
] to do so, and the Wall Street Journal [sub req'd] reports
] they are already asking the goverment to establish
] standards for security in software:

None of these things are happening in a vacuum ... the folks
on Groklaw are being a little alarmist here but not outrageously
so.


 
 
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