On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Mike Nielsen wrote: > It's getting about that time for the masses to head to the polls and decide > who is going to make policy in this nifty keen nation of ours. > > I didn't get a chance to head to the State Fair this year and hunt down the > canidates to see where they stand on issues that would generally affect the > linux/open sourse community as a whole. > > Such as the DMCA DRM P2P and all those fun digital rights problems out > there. > > Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas or even know where the local canidates > sit on some of these issues? > AFAICT both the major Senate candidates are for the DMCA and DRM. They are business friendly, so Coleman would be for them, and Wellstone voted for the Senate verion of the DMCA(who knows why?!). I am not sure where anyone else stands on restoring the public domain to the public. -- Daniel Taylor dante at plethora.net And Carthage must be destroyed!