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Updatum The Gilmore-Rivest conversation is up at John Gilmore's site.
The delta between this and this seems remarkably small. Strong commentary on the latter from Michael O'Connor Clarke on the Cluetrain list. If you've got nothing to sing, sell it. From the management of a company whose engineers found a way to put 41,000 simultaneous Linux servers on one S/390 mainframe comes a dumb idea based on the well disproven assumption that every time you sing a song you're distributing it. ]|][]|][]||]][[[|]| [||[|]]||. But you knew that. Check out the very deep and long interview with Eben Moglen titled The Encryption Wars, at Immaterial.net A sample:
What we have is massive marketintervention by legislators who have the power to create propertyrights through law and who are selling it. We can't create a freeanything, because it is ideologically deprecated for things to be free, and most importantly, because it is politically ineffective forthings to be free, because making things free doesn't bring in campaign contributions. There are no secrets. Only people storing vacuums. That's my alternative to the slogan of Adam Curry's Weblog, which is one of my faves. There are responses to this message:
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