gnome.org hacked/cracked ?

folks,

check out www.gnome.org. It this hacked/cracked ?

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On 27 Aug 2003 03:37:49 -0700, tornado <tornado579@yahoo.com>
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> folks,
>
> check out www.gnome.org. It this hacked/cracked ?

No - they're protesting software patents by taking the site down for a
day. See the site referenced on the main page for more information.

Cheers,
Michael.

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tornado579@yahoo.com (tornado) writes:

> check out www.gnome.org. It this hacked/cracked ?

http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article....thread&order=0

Not likely.

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Check http://linuxfr.org

Europe will decide to use software patent and people are protesting.

>> check out www.gnome.org. It this hacked/cracked ?
>
> Nope: it's part of a protest against the possible introduction of
> software patents in the EU.
>
> See: http://swpat.ffii.org/

As a Canadian, I don't understand what is happening in Europe. I have
recently looked to the United States and thought that the government must
have lost their minds with the introduction of legislation such as the DMCA
which seems to me to be one of the greatest threats to technological
freedom, innovation, and progress (all to satisfy the media industry).

THEN I started learning about what's going on in Europe -- the EU Copyright
Directive, again along the lines of the halfbrained US DMCA, which uses law
instead of technology to artificially push encryption and digital rights
management.

And now software patents? I used to be under the impression that Europe
valued research more than the United States, but this is clearly not the
case. When it's illegal to reverse engineer technologies let alone freely
write software because it's covered under some big company's mass patent,
technological innovation in Europe and the U.S. will SLOW TO A HALT.

So then, who is going to tinker and innovate? Probably China and the other
Asian countries you of European heritage have feared for so long!

Jem Berkes enlightened us with:
> As a Canadian, I don't understand what is happening in Europe.

Trust me, as a Dutchman I don't understand it either.

> I have recently looked to the United States and thought that the
> government must have lost their minds with the introduction of
> legislation such as the DMCA which seems to me to be one of the
> greatest threats to technological freedom, innovation, and progress

Yep, me too...

> THEN I started learning about what's going on in Europe

Completely retarded.

> And now software patents?

I hope they don't push it through. It'll be a complete desaster for
any programmer trying to think freely.

Sybren
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safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

* Jem Berkes [2003-08-27 18:06]:

>> See: http://swpat.ffii.org/
>
> As a Canadian, I don't understand what is happening in Europe.

Sometimes, even though I live in the EU, I don't either. ;-)

Bye,
Emmanuele.

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