Hi everyone, I'm about to start writing a letter to my representatives in Congress about the proposed SSSCA. Like many of you, I'm concerned about the potential loss of privacy and general invasiveness of this particular law. Its affect on free software projects is also not to be underestimated. It occurs to me that one of the best ways to argue against the DMCA (too late, I know) and SSSCA is to point out past innovations that would have been illegal under these laws. I'm wondering if others on the list would have some items to suggest. This first item I thought of is below. Can anyone add to this (or correct me if I'm wrong)? I'm no expert on this or any legal question so I may be misinterpreting the whole thing. 1. The PC revolution (Compaq's reverse engineering of the IBM BIOS would have been illegal) -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com