The Future End of Classic Computing

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Mon Apr 1 13:13:17 2002

>From the subjectline, I see this post *finally* made it...

I was beginning to think Jack Valenti was censoring me...

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doc [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]
>
> > Please, please don't assume that the idiocy, the long-term impact on
> > innovation and economy, or even the legality of this bill have ANY
> > bearing on its likelihood of passing.
>
> Yep.
>
> > These puppet politicians really don't have a clue or a care what
> > they're sponsoring, and a lot of basically honest legislators are not
> > only absolutely illiterate concerning, but completely unaware of, non-MS
> > computing and digital media technology in general. They can
>
> You're much more kind to them than I. I would have simply
> said they're treasonous, and have never heard of the US
> constitution.

Adam Schiff, another congressman from California, is proposing
a similiar law. Adam has stated that he doesn't expect the law to
pass, but that its sole purpose is to gain leverage against the
high-tech industry regarding the copyright issue and in favor of
the entertainments industry.

In other words, they we'll all be sufficiently scared that we'll finally
give up some ground in the copyright issue. What ground is left
to give up? They've already lengthened the terms of protection
when they should have been shortening them.

To my way of thinking, that constitutes abuse of process, and makes
Fritz Hollings and Adam Schiff not merely traitors, but persona non grata.

-dq
 

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