On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:33 PM, David P. Reed <[email protected]> wrote: > I love copy left thinking. I worry that I can't sign something so > provocative, because it invokes regulatory overreach. > > The letter is taking a totalitarian turn, asking government to go beyond > choice. I thought we were reducing the power of the FCC Iintitution, but now > it is a call for extreme control.
? If you could point to the paragraphs you are objecting to, we can resolve your issues. Hopefully. The ultimate control should reside in the owner, and I thought we'd brought that out sufficiently. > Instead of innovation it seeks control over innovators. > > > On Sep 30, 2015, [email protected] wrote: >> >> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:11:38 -0400, Christopher Waid said: >> >>>> Apparently, they were of the opinion that the mere fact that I might >>>> die of a heart attack a year after distributing something doesn't >>>> excuse me from complying.) >>> >>> >>> I don't know if it does excuse you from complying, but I say good luck >>> to the person trying to get it enforced. >> >> >> They could quite possibly hassle the executor of my estate if they were >> sufficiently determined. >> >> But given that abandonware (both software and hardware) is a big chunk >> of the problem, we really *do* need to address the problem of companies >> that can't provide patches because they've gone under. Possibly a >> requirement that they open-source the hardware/software if possible? >> (That's another can-o-worms - consider that a big chunk of why NVidia >> doesn't open-source their proprietary graphics drivers is because there's >> a lot of OpenGL-related patents and trade secrets that Microsoft bought >> when >> there was the big fire sale when SGI got out of the graphics market - so >> it's quite possible that a vendor *can't* open-source it when they go >> under due to licensing issues...) > > > -- Sent with K-@ Mail - the evolution of emailing. -- Dave Täht Do you want faster, better, wifi? https://www.patreon.com/dtaht _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
