The really silly part is that if they do restrict Open Source in the US it 
will only cause a slight slowdown in Linux/Open Source development.  They 
have no clue about how the movement is supported worldwide.

On Friday 16 February 2001 12:34, you wrote:
> Here's the scary part, every one of US sees that this is just a bunch of
> malarkey, but Joe Consumer doesn't. Regular people are easily influenced
> by what they read and see, and most people out there would see something
> like this and think "Those Open Source people really ARE undermining
> those nice people who built my Windows...." All it would take, is one
> powerful, idiot congressperson, to put a bug like this into the system,
> and it just COULD be illegal to write free software, let's face it,
> we're not being shown in a good light after that MPAA fiasco, and it
> isn't even over yet.
>
> Somebody on /. posted a good comment about an open letter to every
> single representative, written by every one of us (read: the open source
> community), included with say, a full copy of the Debian Distro (all 10+
> CD's) and a copy of every other distro, even the teeny tiny ones, just
> so that people in power would get a clearer picture of what innovation
> people like us have created for the world they live in. I'm all for it,
> let's get 'em!
>
> -Todd
>

-- 
Jim

Bliss comes from within, ignorance from without