From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264684AbTD0QBO (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:01:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264685AbTD0QBO (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:01:14 -0400 Received: from mail.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.8]:44805 "HELO heather.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264684AbTD0QBN (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:01:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:13:20 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: Matthias Andree Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! Message-Id: <20030427181320.224e83ef.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030427142106.GA24244@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20030424083730.5F79A2127F@dungeon.inka.de> <20030424085913.GH28253@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3EA804A8.8070608@techsource.com> <1051209350.4004.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030427142106.GA24244@merlin.emma.line.org> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:21:06 +0200 Matthias Andree wrote: > The hard part about this discussion is not the technical one, but the > social one, tell those people who just go to a shop what can happen if > they buy a copy-protected CD, and what can happen if they tolerate their > members of parliament voting in favor of DMCA-like laws Please stop being naive. In case nobody told you: we are not living in a democracy here (in Germany), but something that can best be qualified as party-oligarchy. This is why your MoP is not interested at all in your "tolerance" of his voting. He does not need you (or your vote) for making his living, he needs his party, and that's it. Regards, Stephan