Re: Annual FSF Membership Meeting Mar 15 at MIT

One thing which always fascinated me is that we aren't seeing
lregulatory attempts to bully software into being, if not Free, then at
least open, when there's auditability issues.

The obvious one is voting machines, but I'd expect there'd be huge
auditibility requirements for gambling machines, payment processing
kiosks, basically, anything that you give money but don't recieve a
product you can immediately review.

While admittedly disclosing the source code for these devices is no
guarantee it's the same as what's in the machines, it might limit the
chutzpah of exploits if they had to be easily removable to generate a
"clean" copy to file with the state.

-----Original Message-----
From: der.hans <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
To: dennisk@member.fsf.org; Main PLUG discussion list
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Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 1:42 pm
Subject: Re: Annual FSF Membership Meeting Mar 15 at MIT









Am 23. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Dennis Kibbe so:


moin moin Dennis,


> The Annual FSF Associate Membership Meeting will be on Saturday,
March

> 15, 2008 from 9:15 AM - 5:50 PM in Cambridge, MA at MIT. More details

> here.


Would love to go, but SCALE is likely the only thing I'm going to make
for

a while.


> http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2008

>

> There is no charge for the event and if you are not a member you can

> join on the FSF site. Membership is payable in a yearly amount or you

> can pay monthly.

>

> The annual membership meetings are a great opportunity to give your

> voice the campaigns to fight for software freedom in the year ahead.


Would you ask about Free Software accounting for me? For this we need
not

only the software, but also accountants that will work with Free
Software.


ciao,


der.hans

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