--- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:07:35 -0500 From: Rich Kulawiec <rskat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Re: FC: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, Intel oppose bill fixing DMCA Message-ID: <20030305000735.GA2951at_private> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030304175752.025b0c30at_private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030304175752.025b0c30at_private> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:13:51PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > "The technology industry has proliferated like no other industry due to the > rapid creation of new and innovative means of meeting consumer expectations > and enhanced productivity. And this legacy continues even while consumer > expectations expand with every new and conceivable application of > technology. Any weakening of the laws that promote continued innovation > and needed protections for copyright owners will ultimately stifle industry > growth and limit consumer choices. Translation: "We are watching open-source eat the fat cats of the software industry for breakfast and we are scared out of our minds about what it will do when it sits down for lunch. We are completely unprepared to compete with the 'college-kid hackers', as we dismissively like to label them, who are not wasting their time with shrink-wrap and terms-of-use and licenses and crippleware and spyware like we are, but who are actually writing solid stuff that's usable in the real world to do real work. When they get around to application areas like CRM and supply-chain, we will be totally fucked. So we are looking for any means possible to prevent them from entering our market space, and the DMCA is a good club for us to use, thanks to our huge legal teams who stand ready to crush anybody with the audacity to write software and give it away. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the RIAA and the MPAA in our willingness to criminalize any behavior that threatens our obscene profits, or which penalizes us in any way for our complete failure to anticipate changing market conditions, new technology, or overwhelming dissatisfaction with the crap we're selling." ----Rsk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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