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Article #212Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email
From: Angus McBastard
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:32
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:32
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Jason Clifford wrote: > > > > > Well most open-source people would I think say that the problem is > > endemic to the production system. Consumers have always had an > > alternative, but they've never had the collective knowledge to realise > > when they are being stolen from. > > As the producer of a Linux distribution I have to disagree with you. Until > very recently it has not been possible for consumers to even obtain Free > Software and shareware doesn't really offer a better license model. > I think maybe I misrepresented myself...The consumer had a choice, but it was Hobsons choice between competing proprietary products ( see my other post ) :-) But I have two questions... 1) Don't you think the problems with closed source are endemic to the production system? 2) Can I try your distro? Angus -- It said WinNT 4.0 or better on the box. So I installed Linux.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fea0e,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: f6783,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6783,public X-Google-Thread: 10b88a,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b88a,public X-Google-Thread: 10b574,cf6971c789d68a89 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b574,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-27 08:34:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-sto.telia.net!masternews.telia.net!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39F99F73.D9A0C6E8@my-deja.com> From: Angus McBastard <angusmcb@my-deja.com> Organization: The Milk Marketing Board X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test8 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: eunet.misc,uk.legal,uk.politics.misc,uk.misc Subject: Re: new powers for employers to read employees' email References: <8t3pjt$qte$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8t3qti$bp$1@wallace.stir.ac.uk> <8t4alc$98a$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <CbpJ5.3584$MK5.360545@news1.cableinet.net> <8t6805$sbv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <u1BJ5.4475$MK5.452604@news1.cableinet.net> <39F6E5CE.3179C81F@my-deja.com> <8t9bpq$dng$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39F84080.28C3F4E3@my-deja.com> <l9ZJ5.254$Rc6.25682@news1.cableinet.net> <8tadrg$b3d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39F92280.600A277A@my-deja.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010270950410.9208-100000@www.uklinux.net> <39F954C4.D5B82B19@my-deja.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010271601510.6840-100000@www.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 35 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:32:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.20.153.94 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 972660739 62.20.153.94 (Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:32:19 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:32:19 CEST