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Re: non-us.debian.org caught fire



On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:05:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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:
> > > > [...]
> > > > Yes.  Caught fire.
> > > 
> > > OK, now we need a conspiration theory. I say it was either the BSA or 
> > > some music or movie publisher/producer.
> > 
> > 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.

Of course, it isn't for unitedlinux. They just launched. Anyone wants to
create debian-conspiracy@lists.debian.org ?

Frank

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