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Bateluer:
"Decent people expect others to be decent, just like themselves. Criminals expect others to be criminals, just like themselves. When Eisner and Rosen and Valenti and Hollings see a world populated by cheats and frauds and freeloading scum, what does that say about them?"

From the Reg article.

I wrote my Senators and Representives. Our Rep is good, I've met him in person before. But our Senators in Michigan, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, are both idiots.

dbl221:
So do Senators and Congressmen just take money from big business all the time and the american people just think thats normal, or is there some kind of outcry when a senator is so obviously "working" for an industry and not his constituents.  :eek:

Zombie9920:
* Assembling a home-built PC.

Why in gods' name would they want to make assembling your own PC illegal? A person can build a better computer for cheaper than they pay for those crappy OEM systems. If this bill ever went through I would be breaking the law alot because nobody will stop me from building my own PCs.

Making Open Source illegal isn't a good idea either. Alot of network/server admins rely on open source software to keep the cost of thier networks/servers down because they can't afford Microsofts' ridiculous licensing fees. What will happen to all of the networks/servers who rely on open source OSes?

The SSSCA can go suck a fat man.

[ March 06, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]

voidmain:
You almost got it Zombie.  They use Open source for the same reason you use open hardware.  Because they can build their software better than they can buy it. No difference.  I can more than afford MS software many times over but I use open source because it does my server/network tasks far better than MS can do it.

dbl221:
Well I found out how muck it cost to buy an American Senator.....$300000.00

 
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