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Subject: Re: SSSCA: We're in trouble now
From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>
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le ven 01-03-2002 ? 21:27, Shawn Starr a ?crit :
> Trouble or not. We will defeat this garbage. I will not allow any or my
> (Canada) country to tell me how to control my own systems let alone my
> own hardware! 
> 
> Let them pass it, they won't be able to enforce it. I won't let my Linux
> kernel become 'tainted' by closed binary drivers and I will really
> actively get involved in defeating such measures in Linux kernel
> modules.

You already use much BIOS with linux today, and tomorrow ACPI will be
mandatory to use your box. Both are untrusted binary "drivers".

	Xav

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