http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/obama-veep-wa-1.html Obama VP Pick Joe Biden: Good on Civil Liberties, Friendly to Hollywood
http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-946732.html Pirate this, go to jail - CNET
Considering that most VPs prior to Cheney ended up stuck spending most of their tenures in policy-shaping exploratory committees, and considering that Biden's already got a reputation for jetting all over the world and trying to get his hands into foreign policy debates this is bad, bad news. Way I read the articles above, Biden would have illegalized numerous open source projects including Rockbox and multiple ports of Linux/NetBSD/whatever to DRM-laden embedded systems. Recent news doesn't paint McCain as being much better, and there just isn't much to go off of concerning Obama.
Which way will you swing? Anyone gonna put odds on the KCLUG reaching a consensus-based endorsement? :)
Sean Crago http://mrzaius.com Kathmandu
--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Sean Crago cragos@gmail.com wrote:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/obama-veep-wa-1.html Obama VP Pick Joe Biden: Good on Civil Liberties, Friendly to Hollywood
http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-946732.html Pirate this, go to jail - CNET
Considering that most VPs prior to Cheney ended up stuck spending most of their tenures in policy-shaping exploratory committees, and considering that Biden's already got a reputation for jetting all over the world and trying to get his hands into foreign policy debates this is bad, bad news. Way I read the articles above, Biden would have illegalized numerous open source projects including Rockbox and multiple ports of Linux/NetBSD/whatever to DRM-laden embedded systems.
Whats really weird is that *Microsoft* doesn't like Biden's revisions either.
From the CNET article:
"But Microsoft indicated on Friday that it had problems with Biden's revisions. "Those issues, from our perspective, highlight the reason why we support the legislation as it was originally written," said spokesman Jon Murchinson."
If *Microsoft* thinks the new DRM legislation is too restrictive...
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