Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate

Herman Oosthuysen (Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com)
Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:37:59 -0700


The bill says that the protection scheme must be open source, so no M$ tax.

I guess lots of Americans are going to tune in to European content if this
bill passes. It should be a boon to Canada and Mexico too. Maybe we should
support this bill...

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----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Cc: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>;
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Subject: Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate

> > On Monday 25 March 2002 17:22, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > > Has there been anything that says the copy protection code can't be source? > > > If it were included in the source, along with all the other code, would > > > that be recognized as "protected"? > > > > Worst thing happens if somebody gets a patent for the copy protection schemes... > > Microsoft already do > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

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