Comments on: Gates’ latest attack on Linux http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3764 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3764/comment-page-1#comment-9328 Reader's Write Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:48:17 +0000 #comment-9328 Should governments be able to keep Acts of Parliament closed? Should judges be able to make rulings in court cases where all the evidence is closed without this being an extreme case with considerable external oversight? Software code increasingly acts as a regulator on our lives, acting like legal code. We need to start questioning exactly what type of code=law we wish to have governing us in our alegedly democratic societies. http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law-speedgeek.html Should governments be able to keep Acts of Parliament closed? Should judges be able to make rulings in court cases where all the evidence is closed without this being an extreme case with considerable external oversight?

Software code increasingly acts as a regulator on our lives, acting like legal code. We need to start questioning exactly what type of code=law we wish to have governing us in our alegedly democratic societies.

http://www.flora.ca/russell/drafts/code-is-law-speedgeek.html

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3764/comment-page-1#comment-9325 Reader's Write Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:26:45 +0000 #comment-9325 Just wondering if you ever got round to it :). As for interoperability, Microsoft haven't exactly got a good track record on the subject. Just wondering if you ever got round to it :) .

As for interoperability, Microsoft haven’t exactly got a good track record on the subject.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3764/comment-page-1#comment-9324 Reader's Write Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:24:56 +0000 #comment-9324 Shut up Bill, we told you to stop lurking around P2Pnet... Shut up Bill, we told you to stop lurking around P2Pnet…

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/3764/comment-page-1#comment-9312 Reader's Write Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:18:35 +0000 #comment-9312 They should have a right to keep the code closed. They should have a right to keep the code closed.

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