Don't feel bad, apperently the "whole" open source community thinks that the sky is going to fall over the latest W3 consideration. You see if one takes time to read it, they will realize that what it does is allow some macroslop person to not lose all rights to info that is shared while working at the W3 labs at MIT. Currently if a researcher for a company goes to MIT for joint work, any input they give will imediately becoem the property of MIT. This is looking to change that. The next thing is something to be somewhat concerned with. While I think it worth your time to voice an opinion to congress people, it will not be the end of the world. First, there has to be a standard. Second, once the standard is in place open source can impliment it. The ability of a bright individual being able to disable said restriction would in no way impact the product. This would be akin for someone suing macroslop cause someone found a way to get arround the country limitation on DVDs. It might become illegal to modify your software to work arround the standard. It might (probably will) be illegal for you to tell others how to disable the copyright protection. But it won't make linux in its entirety illegal. It won't keep someone from using the current technology. It (again) isn't the end of the world. We also should not think that a project would be dead (gnome 2) just because sun dumps it from their plate. Gnome started without sun. It can continue with it. Sure the help is good. Sure we should be glad for corperate help. But speakup should be proof enough that corperations are not the answer to accesibility. In fact, it is proof they are the wrong answer most of the time. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net "When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missle at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive." - President George Bush
