Alan Cox wrote: > > If they redefine "software", can't we find ourselves a new name for what > > we are used to call "software"? > > Its called "free speech" at least in the USA - and thats what Bernstein and > other cases have been about. Its about the right to censor mathematics OK, let's just start calling it "speechware"... Now the only concern is how to deal with the new era of "closed digital hardware/software"... One can accidentally become a "criminal" by just opening (reading) a weak "digital protected format" or "reverse disassembling/engineering" something not supposed to be digitally manipulated that way... (ah, just the "other" way...) we all know that this is easy to happen... After all, a file format is just a file format... stream of silly bits Abracos PCastro #include <copy/protected> #define BINARY PATENTED -- HOM: http://www.momentus.com.br/users/hook/ GPG: http://www.momentus.com.br/users/hook/GPG-PauloCastro.asc