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McCain advised by software patent & tobacco lobbyists?
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| McCain is advised by pro-software patent lobbyist Ray Gifford, ex-President
| of the Progress & Freedom Foundation (a Washington 'think-tank' notably
| financed by Microsoft lobby proxy CompTIA). Gifford was speaking in a
| conference Europe about the failed software patent directive with all the
| pro-software patent lobbyists. Progress & Freedom Foundation runs the
| IPCentral blog.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86361/mccain-advised-by-software-patent-tobacco-lobbyists
"I’d be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it
Friday afternoon but not Saturday. I could do it pretty much any time the
following week."
--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft
Recent:
EDPS confirms the possibility of a 'Soviet Internet'
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| EDPS, the European Data Protection Supervisor, points out in its analysis of
| the Harbour report that amendment 81 gives the possibility of a 'Soviet
| Internet', where National Regulatory Authorities could impose technological
| mandates, such as mandatory TPM chips to connect to the internet.
|
| [...]
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| FFII has been involved in the OOXML standardisation discussion, and according
| to Wikipedia, there are proposals to standardize the TPM stack inside ISO:
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| Some efforts exists have the Trusted computing specifications
| standardized by ISO. This was active for a first part in October 2007 and
| member states of the ISO/DIS JTC1 are expected to send their opinion to
| ISO by July 24 2008.
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| The concerned documents are referred to as
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| * ISO/IEC DIS 11889-1 Trusted Platform Module — Part 1: Overview
| * ISO/IEC DIS 11889-2 Trusted Platform Module — Part 2: Design principles
| * ISO/IEC DIS 11889-3 Trusted Platform Module — Part 3: Structures
| * ISO/IEC DIS 11889-4 - Trusted Platform Module — Part 4: Commands
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| Which means that it would be easier for National Regulatory Authorities to
| mandate such standard to connect to the Internet.
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| It is time to contact your MEP and ask them to reject this amendment 81. EDPS
| has also some concerns about the Harbour's IMCO report on amendments 9, 30,
| 76, 81,112 130, 134.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-85894/edps-confirms-the-possibility-of-a-soviet-internet
http://tinyurl.com/5wmvdn
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