[OT] Re: America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)

[paul.cour1 at verizon.net]

Hello

Thank you for inserting the "OT"  in the 
subject line. The message was indeed off topic.

paulc

> 
> From: Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org>
> Date: 2005/01/05 Wed AM 08:45:02 EST
> To: clark_k at pannaway.com (Kevin D. Clark)
> CC: Greg Rundlett <greg at freephile.com>, 
>    GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
> Subject: [OT] Re: America. The land of the not-so-free (economy)
> 
> 
> clark_k at pannaway.com said:
> > Other than the fact that the Heritage Foundation's web server seems to run
> > Linux, this entire thread seems to be off-topic.
> 
> No, I disagree.  Freedom of software is often limited by the freedom of the
> economy and what the government does with it.
> 
> In my travels around the world I have noted that a lot of the countries that
> are "second" and "third world" have very high costs of postal mail and
> telecommunications compared to ours, usually because of a government that
> tries to get revenue from them.  I believe that one of the reasons for the
> success of the United States has been the continual low cost of communications
> which allows us to exchange ideas.
> 
> Other areas that the government interjects policies are:
> 
> 	o Software Patents
> 	o DMCA
> 	o Contracts for software
> 
> etc, etc.
> 
> So I do not consider this topic "OT" at all, unless you consider the discussion
> of Linux to be strictly technical.
> 
> However, to placate those who think of a stricter use of this list, I have
> inserted an "[OT]" symbol in the subject line. :-)
> 
> md
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