Re: RE: [ISN] DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

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 () planet 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 () utdallas edu)
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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