Before you think of being a do-gooder...

[Rick Tomaschuk]

I suspect the kind of prosecution you're mentioning pre-supposes a class
of citizen who 'inherently' assumes priority over others thorough birth,
political position, power gained illegally through force/theft/beating
the legal system. etc. (money). Government in general seem to be
ignorant of what is "going on" in the computer industry weather its the
patent office or law enforcement. As a citizen of Canada where else can
I go to escape the corruption brought on by large computer companies? I
think education is a key tool to bring about some sense of rationality
to the consumer and business allowing a level playing field for
participants. Many unemployed computer programmers are needlessly out of
work due to monopolistic practices of corrupt corporations and law
enforcement which selectively apply the law.
RickT

http://www.TorontoNUI.ca

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 16:20 +0300, Peter wrote:
> Sending a HTML query of any kind, to an open html port, using characters 
> from the approved character set, and of acceptable length and format, is 
> a valid query and a valid use of the HTML protocol. Prosecution or even 
> suspecting individuals who use such legal (in the HTML sense) queries 
> for ANYTHING, ANYWHERE is morally equivalent with the prosecution and 
> punishment of individuals for looking at a public billboard. This kind 
> of prosecution is in fact performed, in countries like China, some 
> asian, african, and south american (and now north american and 
> european?) countries and other Elbonian so-called republics. Orwell 
> would have been proud of this. I have voted with my feet before, and 
> this kind of thing happening where I live, would prompt me to consider 
> that again.
> 
> Peter
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