Thanks Roy,
Passed it on to my local Reno LUG and a friend who has a Webpage that the President even visited, perhaps it's linked to www.blackplanet.com.
Joan in Reno
--- On Sat, 2/12/11, westmi <west.mi420@gmail.com> wrote:
From: westmi <west.mi420@gmail.com>
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: ACTA
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 6:51 AM
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> First let me apologize for cross-posting, not something that I usually do.
>
> The FSF is organizing a campaign in the US to protest ACTA which will
> limit free software. I am not an American, so am forwarding this on to
> Americans here on their behalf. You can act or not as you choose. The
> details are in their article. I
> will not want to get into a long discussion on it. This is for your
> information only.
>
> ACTA has been done in secret by government and industry with no
> outside input and leaks have revealed that what they are trying to do
> is not good for users. If you are not sure what ACTA is about then you
> can Google it and you will find much information. There are campaigns
> against it all over the world. Now it is the US's turn. I have posted
> this in the hopes that people will at least think about the larger
> issues because a culture of software freedom is essential for Linux to
> to survive. The FSF is on the forefront, but they cannot do it alone,
> hence the appeal. If you are in another country, perhaps you can
> Google ACTA and your country's name.
>
> Although it is potentially a hot topic, I hope the moderators will
> allow this information to be posted so that users can at least be
> informed.
>
> http://www.fsf.org/news/ustr-acta-action
>
> Thanks,
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
crap-seems there is always someone trying to
take away our freedom-the same freedom that many died for!
D
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