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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm afraid I have to agree with Kenneth Burger over
the latest Alan Cox move. He's deliberately overstating the DMCA and
taking extreme actions in order to draw attention to the cause, and he's
punishing Linux users and maintainers to do it. His actions cannot be
justified. On the face of it, publishing details of security updates does
not violate the DMCA, and indeed is quite common and so far never
prosecuted. There is a tortuous (no pun intended) argument by which such
publishing could violate the DMCA... however, the same argument would also apply
to the changes themselves, which Mr. Cox is NOT suppressing. Therefore, it
seems his action is political and not based on any genuine reasonable or
unreasonable fear of prosecution.</FONT></DIV>
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