[REBOL] The end of Open Source in the US?
From: bpaddock::csonline::net at: 23-Mar-2002 17:02
http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html
Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders
By Declan McCullagh
WASHINGTON -- America's programmers, engineers and sundry bit-heads have not
yet figured out how much a new copyright bill will affect their livelihood.
When they do, watch for an angry Million Geek March to storm Capitol Hill.
A bill introduced this week by Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) would
roil the electronics industry by forcibly embedding copy protection into all
digital devices, from MP3 players to cell phones, fax machines, digital
cameras and personal computers.
[The way that the clueless politicians have written the law, even your simple
digital wrist watch needs to have this copy protection code...]
{The Digital Millennium Copy Protection Act as already been keeping people
from disclosing bugs found in things like the Linux kernel. :-( }
