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URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/The-BBC-s-digital-rights-plans-will-wreak-havoc-on-open-source-software-Cory-Doctorow-The-Guardian-tp1891p1895.html
Charles MacDonald wrote:
> Russell McOrmond wrote:
> - the
>> Olympics (as far from a public institution as you can get -- not worth
>> watching or even acknowledging) has been pushing DRM stuff pretty heavily.
>>
>
> Do you have permission to use that "special word starting with O"?
*grins* No, but I already have my formal reply which begins with a
"special word starting with an F".
Long term this is a good thing -- it will eventually get people past
thinking the Olympics is something that brings the world together, and
instead is just another example of some of the extreme ideologies that
separate various people in the world.
--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <
http://www.flora.ca/>
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