An attempt to backdoor the kernel
Posted Nov 8, 2003 2:03 UTC (Sat) by
coriordan (guest, #7544)
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An attempt to backdoor the kernel by hingo
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An attempt to backdoor the kernel
Thanks for the comments, and to bajw too.
Georg Greve (president of FSFeurope) might be the closest thing Europe has to an RMS, but I'm sure most people haven't heard of him. Digital freedom needs so much work, that people working on these issues usually don't have time to contribute to public fora like LWN. So this leave such fora filled with a high percentage of contribution by armchair generals etc., and I think this sucks, so I make time for LWN, and sometimes lesser fora such as slashdot.
Regarding the enforceability of the GPL in europe, I second ber's info, as for McDonalds coffee, RMS mentions it in this article.
It's interesting that ber mentions FS being a gift in Germany. Last year a law professor proposed a law to forbid the gift transfer of copyrighted material without reasonable compensation. His aim was to prevent musicians being ripped off by the recording industry, but he hadn't realised that this put distribution of FS in jeopardy. Georg Greve, and the others in FSFeurope and another org called iFROSS, got an FS exception added to the law, and FS was safe again. But since he deosn't post to LWN, most people didn't hear of this ;-)
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