Re: Code SCO claimed "copied into Linux" actually BSD-licensed

tony_at_aplawrence.com
Date: 08/22/03 

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:35:53 +0000 (UTC)

Bill Campbell <bill@celestial.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 22, 2003, brian wrote:
>...
>>I read your web log with some interest and I must confess your fears
>>concening licensing access to the Internet are alarming.
>>
>>I then thought about the road systems and automobiles - it's a priveledge,
>>not a right.

>If I pay for it, I have a right to expect it to work.

But you do NOT necessarily have the right to use it:
http://aplawrence.com/Opinion/licensedos.html

>A free lunch isn't a right (much as the demagogues preach to
>parasites that they're victims).

>>Do you truly believe such a thing could be made to happen? The abduction of
>>the Internet out from under the private sector that made it what it is
>>today? Unlike roads, the infrastructure does not rely on land based
>>technology - especially now with the advances in wireless.

>There's a large and powerful group of people who really don't like the free
>interchange of information, but want people to only see what they have to
>say. Life gets interesting for politicians when anybody can do a google
>search to find evidence of their lies. These people don't like losing
>control of anything, in particular information.

Another reason they'd like regulating it.

>The centralization of the internet backbones such that a few major
>organizations control the traffic makes it very vulnerable. The net was
>originally designed under the DARPA project to be able to continue when
>large chunks were taken out, perhaps by nuclear attacks, and it worked
>because it was a decentralized network. Most of the internet traffic today
>in the Seattle area goes through one building.

Which also means that it would be easy to enforce access privileges..

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