Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:07:54PM -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:
Americans have strange ideas about their laws and the extent they cover.
Sometimes to good effect (eg corruption laws) sometimes to bad. For a US
based body to advocate that a non-US citizen exercise their legal rights if
those rights conflict with "US law" is an area that requires careful legal
thought. Remember that US "freedom of speech" is political speech - so the
right to complain about the existing US policies and fight them is protected
not the right to tell people how to violate them.
No argument from me. So could DRM actually help us, here? Could
RedHat/Fedora offer country specific versions with some sort of regional
DRM in place, so that the rest of the world doesn't have to suffer from
shortcomings here in the USA? Of course, with the source being
available people could subvert it, but surely, at some point, RedHat
should be considered "not responsible". After all, OSS code distributed
by RedHat currently could no doubt be modified to do illegal things. On
the other hand, there is at least one wireless driver that Andrew can't
include in the vanilla kernel because the souce could be modified by the
user to violate FCC regulations.
BTW, nobody has called me on it, but my original post, upon re-reading,
seems more critical of RedHat than was intended. Retroactive appologies
for that.
-Steve
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