Re: non-us.debian.org caught fire
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:59, christophe barbe wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:39:39PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote:
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> > On Wednesday 20 November 2002 15:26, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> > > Yes. Caught fire.
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> > OK, now we need a conspiration theory. I say it was either the BSA or
> > some music or movie publisher/producer.
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> Ok for the conspiration theory but we need a good enemy. We (debian)
> are not for copyright violation (to said the least) so BSA and media
> companies are bad candidates. The latter could eventually be candidate
> because of its Digital Right Misappropriation (sorry management) that
> doesn't fit with the Free Software. No really the best candidate is
> Microsoft.
Well, since apparently the university is/was a *big* KaZaA node,
the BSA or music industry might actually have hired a firebug to
"send a message". Zapping a debian node is just lagniappe for MSFT.
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