Hi Neil, On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 11:37, Neil Thompson wrote: > We really don't need rabid fanatical so-called freedom advocates making life > difficult for newbies or for people providing a resource (for free) which is useful > to many people. We also don't need to make life difficult for people (like actually going to jail) because they don't have a licensed copy of Sun's JDK or Adobe Acrobat, simply because they got it from a friend instead of the official distributors, even though it's gratis. Yes, this is not a paranoid vision, there's an EU directive proposal aiming to turn copyright infringement a public crime, I can give you the pointers for that, a starter could be a version of the proposal: http://www.europarl.eu.int/meetdocs/committees/juri/20031104/511548EN.pdf Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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