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Message-ID: <3358270000.1050769082@[192.168.2.110]>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding
But that's his privilege. If he chooses to express his thoughts in that
way, he has every right to do so. That's precisely what freedom is.
--On Saturday, April 19, 2003 11:11:09 AM +0200 yossarian
<yossarian@...net.nl> wrote:
>> Thank you. I'm so sick and tired of hearing the cry of "McCarthyism"
>> from celebrities who have spoken out against the war and are now
>> suffering from boycotts of their products. Get over it. You had the
>> right to say what you want. And we have the right to not buy your
>> stupid records, movies, whatever.
>>
>> It's *free* speech, *not* speech without consequences. Ask Senator Trent
>> Lott if there is a price for speech. I didn't hear any of the anti-war
>> celebrities complain about that.
>>
> True words, indeed, say what you like but face the consequences. But it is
> getting a bit awkward - one of my customers decided not to use any
> american computer stuff any more, ever. This means Linux stuff on funny
> brands of (taiwanese and french) hardware. I am OK with that for desktop
> and server environment (Corel is canadian), and a lot cheaper, but for
> the WAN part it is getting really hard. Anyway, underneath it is probably
> US anyway. Another customer decided to get rid of american crypto
> software, since he is afraid of economic espionage by No such 'n such
> Agency, helping his us based competitors. The Brussels incident didn't
> really help here.These politically motivated discussions are raising the
> cost of computing, i guess.
>
> yossarian
>
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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