[gordon_guthrie@hotmail.com: Politicians And The RIP, DMCA, European Software Patents blah-blah]

[Graeme Mathieson]

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This turned up on the local LUG mailing list.  I thought it might be of
interest.
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A quick recap of some edlug e-mails of last year:

You: blah-blah politicians, blah-blah bad legislation, blah-blah, hang 'em 
high

Me: I was a Labour Candidate for the Scottish Parliament, I use Linux, I 
oppose the RIP

You: What you gonna do about this then?

Me: Hee-haw, but wait for my internet strategy to be implemented

You: Collective hmmm...

We'l the strategy (http://politicaldiscussion.org) has now born its first 
fruit http://scottish.politicaldiscussion.org

Scottish Political Discussion is an implementation of the Scoop engine 
behind Kuro5hin to which I have added an inline/context-sensitive help 
system.

At the moment I am building the community 
(http://scottish.politicaldiscussion.org/story/2002/2/27/21311/7664)

Would one of you experts like to write an article/more than one article/do a 
quickie that links to an article about the RIP, the DMCA, European Software 
Patents, the recent call for comments on using Linux in the public sector, 
etc, etc?

Ta

Gordon


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