Well, I was only joking for the whole thing, but maybe that's not such a
bad idea after all. Make some flyers, get some mandrake and red hat cds
and hand those out. Just keep the deb/slack cd's in thr truck for the
ones who make little comments.
Seriously, anyone up for missing a day of work to protest under the nice
arizona sun? We could even bring flyers about DS and the whole DMCA
case. Tell them they better enjoy the computers because their libraries
are going away...
Hmm, that just gave me a question. I'm sure most of you have heard the
junk about the copyright owners and pro DMCA people looking to getting
rid of libraries, I don't recall where I've heard this, I think it was
on slashdot, but if they actually (I can't foresee this happening, but I
never saw this either) got rid of libraries, what would be next, video
stores? Would we be arrested for entering bookman's and looking at
books, but not purchasing? Maybe we're stealing intellectual property?
How far could it go?
Think the DMCA had any influence on this case? Or possibly MS pushing
the deal because Arizona is such a republican state that we may drop
anti-trust case against them? Or back down I mean.
argh... sorry, just more ramblings.
nathan
On 29 Aug 2001 21:56:31 -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> On 29 Aug 2001, Nathan England wrote:
>
> > ditto on my AbiWord. Opened just fine.
> > And according to it, it will only cost $35 bucks! to show up for this!
> >
> > Hmmm, should I still register if I only plan to show up with a picket
> > sign and protest? Hand out debian and slack cds, pro linux
> > bumperstickers (courtesy of linuxmall, of course) and maybe a few
> > stuffed penguins... I wonder if Fry's still has all those baby tuxs', or
> > did they can those like they do everything else good in that crappy
> > place?
> >
> > Oh well, I'll be there at 0730 sharp, sign in hand, hoarse voice, and
> > screamin' baby!
>
> Errr... perhaps if you created some flyers explaining your situation...
> you could hand those out with the CDs so people have a better idea of why
> you're protesting. Also, maybe using RedHat 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0 would be
> a better choice for new Linux users.
> ~M
>
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