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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   01 Feb 2002  14:57:08
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 Subject : URL: http://www.lwn.net/2002/0131/letters.php3
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    January 31, 2002
 From:    tres <class5@pacbell.net>
 To:      letters@lwn.net
 Subject: Happy Birthday
 Date:    Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:02:26 -0700
 
 Linux Weekly news, known to me as Linux Daily/Hourly/Whenever news, is
 one of my favorite sites for Linux and Open Source/Free Software news.
  I probably refresh [13]http://lwn.net/daily 2-3 times per day; just to see
 'What's up'.
 
 I really like the fact that the legal and political issues are given
 equal weight with the technical and business issues as they are all
 equally critical to the ongoing success of all free and open projects.
  As distasteful and uncomfortable as this side of the revolution is at
 times we must all, at the very least, remain aware of the issues.  If
 possible write a letter or call your elected representative and express
 your views.  Free and open projects are disruptive technologies and big
 business knows this.  They will use all the means at their disposal,
 including lobbying Congress, to stifle this change in thinking.
  Although we don't have the financial resources that these
 Mega-Corporations have, we have something that they don't: numbers.  It
 is time that we started to wield that weapon more often.
 
 If we can't get the attention of the politicians as a few people that
 'think outside the box' then we should try to get the attention of the
 media.  Perhaps if we can get their attention then they can get that of
 the politicians.  Most of them have web sites and email addresses.  If
 enough people ask the question then it might get asked on the 6:00 news!
 
 </Rant>
 
 Sorry about that.  The real reason of this letter is to say to LWN:
 Thanks and Happy Birthday.  GREAT SITE!!!
 
 Tres
 From:    <bodvar@atlanta.is>
 To:      letters@lwn.net
 Subject: LWN turns four -- thanks
 Date:    Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:30:15 -0000
 
 In your Editorial, Jan. 24, you say:
 "Meanwhile, we would like to say "thank you" to all of our readers who have
 kept us going for so long. Writing for this audience is a great pleasure."
 
 IMHO, great thanks should go to the founder, manager, teacher, mentor and
 principal of the free "Basic Linux Training" course, Mr. Henry White
 ([14]http://www.basiclinux.net), who has from the beginning made this e-mag a
 weekly feature and thus inspired many to visit the site.
 
 Also my thanks to you for holding out such a fine publication. I feel that
 some of the best things you are doing, besides writing fine articles, is
 giving references to articles of other publications. I can always rely on
 LWN to give me the essence of what is going on in the Linux community and
 its surroundings.
 
 Thursdays are now, with or without Mr. White's postings, the day of visiting
 LWN.
 
 Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
 Iceland.
 [15]mailto:bodv@vortex.is
 From:    John McKown <joarmc@swbell.net>
 To:      letters@lwn.net
 Subject: DeCSS and "fast cars"
 Date:    Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:13:19 -0600 (CST)
 
 From what I just read, Jon Johansen is being detained for "contributory
 copyright infringement." I guess this is because he is associated with
 DeCSS and the MPAA insists that this can be used to "pirate" DVDs. First,
 is there any evidence that it has been used in this way?
 
 And another thing, why doesn't somebody make law enforcement go after all
 the car designers and manufacturers? I know very well that they
 deliberately and with intent design and manufacture vehicles which can
 exceed even the highest speed limit in the US. These people must be
 stopped from doing this. Even their ads on TV suggest this as
 possible. Have you seen many car ads where the driver is driving
 safely? No, they look like they'r in the Baja rally, but on a normal
 street. Why should I, as the user of a "fast car" be the only one
 responsible for my actions in its use? I think that the next time I get a
 speeding ticket, I will have my lawyer supoena Mazda as a co-defendant
 since the manufactured and sold a car which was capable of being used to
 break the law.
 
 --
 John McKown
 From:    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@picante.com>
 To:      letters@lwn.net
 Subject:
 Date:    Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:57:10 -0500
 
 > HP Recently released its hpijs inkjet printer driver under a BSD
 > license, making it the first free printer driver to come from a
 > printer manufacturer.
 
 It's not the first free driver at all!  HP, Samsung, and undoubtedly
 other vendors have provided free drivers for various printers before.
 
 HP's driver is interesting because it covers almost all of their
 current inkjet line.  This is an order of magnitude better than
 previous one-printer drivers, and immeasurably better than the
 one-printer binary-only nonfree drivers from other vendors.
 
 With this work HP has also provided the germ of a new Ghostscript
 driver interface which will make driver installation substantially
 easier in the future; this "hidden" accomplishment is worth pointing
 out, too.
 
 --
 Grant Taylor - [16]http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
 Linux Printing Website and HOWTO:  [17]http://www.linuxprinting.org/
    [18]Eklektix, Inc. Linux powered! Copyright Л 2002 [19]Eklektix, Inc.,
    all rights reserved
    Linux (R) is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
 
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    3. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/security.php3
    4. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/kernel.php3
    5. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/dists.php3
    6. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/devel.php3
    7. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/commerce.php3
    8. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/press.php3
    9. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/announce.php3
   10. http://lwn.net/2002/0131/bigpage.php3
   11. http://lwn.net/2002/0124/letters.php3
   12. mailto:letters@lwn.net
   13. http://lwn.net/daily
   14. http://www.basiclinux.net/
   15. mailto:bodv@vortex.is
   16. http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
   17. http://www.linuxprinting.org/
   18. http://www.eklektix.com/
   19. http://www.eklektix.com/
 
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