On Friday 24 November 2006 09:45, Craig White wrote: >Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement > >self explanatory > >http://techp.org/petition/show/1 > >Craig Been there, done that, didn't add my name. Having to make an account with enough data to double the incoming spam if it should be sold/stolen, I backed out. Frankly, there are tools that can identify the os and browser, at least as what the user has them set for. If they want my signature on any of that stuff, they can jolly well quit collecting data on me just for the priviledge of typing my name. Knowing with a reasonable certainty that I'm running linux should be sufficient, and one of those gfx icons we have to decode to prove we ain't a web crawler by reading and entering whats in the picture should be enough. If it isn't - tough. Novell is convinced they are pissing downwind, but my money is that the fan giving them a sense of security will be turned off. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
