From:	Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: "Free" Software (was: Euro question)
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 13:48:38 -0500

>
> At 11:34 AM 5/1/98 +0000, SwiftOne wrote:
> >Mega #1 ties things up legally.....where? There is no legal entity
> >responsible for the new system...thousands of owners (no doubt a ton
> >of them shadow deckers anyway, the rest all hardcore geeks) crossing
> >national and corporate boundries.
>
> ==========
> Internal Memo to all MCT employees:
>
> All employees are ordered to remove all copies of MatrixLinux-OS from
> their office, home, an portable systems. MatrixLinux-OS has several
> security backdoors that pose a direct threat to sensitive MCT data. As
> such, it falls under MCT Corporate Legal Code, Title 875: Executing
> Unsecure Computer Code. Employees are reminded that persons caught
> violating Title 875 will be brought before their local MCT Judical
> Board, and penalties range from Demotion with 240 hours of Corporate
> Comunitity Service to Full Termination without Benifits.
> Have a nice and productive workday.
> ==========
>
> Hear that sound? That's what, about 1/5th of the legitimate geek
> userbase hitting the delete key to save their job?
>
>
Possibly. But your forgetting that true "geeks" would never work for the
megas. :) Employees are the drones, the unthinking sheep. No matter
how geeky they are. True geeks are the independents. :)

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