[OT] Protest the Novell-Microsoft Agreement - Sign Bruce Perens petition

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Nov 25 03:55:14 UTC 2006


On Friday 24 November 2006 20:59, Craig White wrote:
>On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 18:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 24 November 2006 09:45, Craig White wrote:
>> >Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement
>> >
>> >self explanatory
>> >
>> >http://techp.org/petition/show/1
>> >
>> >Craig
>>
>> Been there, done that, didn't add my name.  Having to make an account
>> with enough data to double the incoming spam if it should be
>> sold/stolen, I backed out.
>>
>> Frankly, there are tools that can identify the os and browser, at
>> least as what the user has them set for.  If they want my signature on
>> any of that stuff, they can jolly well quit collecting data on me just
>> for the priviledge of typing my name.  Knowing with a reasonable
>> certainty that I'm running linux should be sufficient, and one of
>> those gfx icons we have to decode to prove we ain't a web crawler by
>> reading and entering whats in the picture should be enough.  If it
>> isn't - tough.
>>
>> Novell is convinced they are pissing downwind, but my money is that
>> the fan giving them a sense of security will be turned off.
>
>----
>suit yourself, I didn't post this because it warranted debate.
>
>I gather that you don't know who Bruce Perens is and to solve that, you
>could go to wikipedia.org or simply Google the name. If you knew who he
>was and still wanted to spout the above paranoia, I would be surprised.

I'm well aware of who Bruce Parens is, and what he is to linux.  What I 
smell is tantamount to an ID theft operation masqurading as something 
we'd all sign onto because of our anti M$ bias/religion.  Also, I detest 
using the same passwords for all these 'signup' things just so I can 
remember, and I'm sure not gonna print them all out and hang them on the 
wall either.

>Sometimes, if you want to be counted, you have to give up a little bit
>of your anonymity, but again, sign on or don't sign on, it's your
>choice.
>
>Craig

So I made #1689.  Is everybody happy? :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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