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thinking bad thoughts...



I was referred to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17419.html by an
internal mailing list and am passing the link on.

It's an interesting discussion about a negative utopia where the
entertainment industry usurps open PC hardware and software with proprietary
devices/software through the politics of big money by killing off open
architecture, hardware vendors and the software that powers all of it in the
name of protecting their copyrights.  I wonder how the free software
movement and grassroots users will respond to such a darkening age, if it
comes.

Maybe it's far-fetched; maybe not.  You decide.

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Chuck Young
Internet Systems Engineer,
New England Region
Genuity, Inc.
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