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Go ahead, ban Linux.

Go ahead, ban Linux.

Posted Jul 22, 2002 22:04 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026)
Parent article: The road to World Domination

Intellectual property law, including repressive copyright terms, "anti-circumvention" provisions, software patents, and more, threatens to hamper (or ban outright) Linux in many parts of the world.

I think you mean, "hamper (or ban outright) free software" here. Banning Linux isn't especially scary. If that happened, I would switch to Hurd or a BSD kernel and keep using all the tools I've come to know and love. No problem.

Or did you mean to use "Linux" as a synonym for "free software" in this case? That's confusing, non-sensical and just plain wrong. Please don't do it.


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