On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, M.Hockings wrote: > Steven Stern wrote: > > >What's with the .sig? Registering Linux Users is one step away from making > >them illegal. > > > > > > Hmmm, must be a gun owner.. > > Yup, registration, taxation, confiscation. Currently at the taxation > stage with vehicles, confiscation stage with some guns.. > > I certainly hope it does not happen with Linux (and software/speech in > general). > See http://counter.li.org . Its a 10 year old project to get a count of the number of linux users and machines around. When you get counted, you get a registration number. The original idea was that since linux can be freely downloaded a way was needed to count the number of machines and users. That's all! -- A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
