IP and Biden - Bad, bad, bad direction

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Sean Crago <cragos at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/obama-veep-wa-1.html
> Obama VP
> Pick Joe Biden: Good on Civil Liberties, Friendly to
> Hollywood
> 
> http://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-946732.html Pirate this, go
> to jail - CNET
> 
> Considering that most VPs prior to Cheney ended up 
> stuck spending most of their tenures in policy-shaping 
> exploratory committees, and considering that Biden's 
> already got a reputation for jetting all over the 
> world and trying to get his hands into foreign policy
> debates this is bad, bad news. Way I read the articles 
> above, Biden would have illegalized numerous open 
> source projects including Rockbox and multiple ports 
> of Linux/NetBSD/whatever to DRM-laden embedded systems.

Whats really weird is that *Microsoft* doesn't like Biden's revisions either.