Re: OSS and Free Speech
When Henrique Almeida wrote, I replied:
While I'll agree with anyone who suggestd that this post is
inappropriate
to this forum, I'll nevertheless reply.
The article referenced below refers to a court case which holds that
source
code is "like a telephony circuit" and hence not protected free speech.
This is wrong, source code is only speech in that it requires hardware
which might be of a wide variety of circuit types to turn the source
expression into concrete action.
>
> I think that this article/thread at slashdot is of vital importance for
> all Linux users out there.
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> http://207.218.152.112/articles/980811/2153219.shtml
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