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This man really seems to have a mastery of the issue. Sun has through their own long list of open source offerings and contributions (vs the monopolistic history of IBM) the unquestioned credibility to speak to this issue in any way they so wish, and they are correctly distingushing the difference between the illegal theft of intellectual property and the sometimes worthwhile contribution to society.

He goes on to speak about how the black-hatters are now leading us to the inevitable increase of required home-user authentication, simply due to the amount of extreme piracy/fraud that is currently taking place on the internet.

Will this make things better in the long run? Yes, in my opinion, just like how at some point in history we started requiring drivers licenses on the open roads. Internet outlaws may fancy yourselves as modern day versions of Butch Cassidy, but the Wyatt Earps are going to get them in the end.

As for respectful open source programmers, who certainly exist and can dialouge in a dignified manner, I look forward to discussing this with you. But No flame wars, please.

Looking at the first view that says Intel is the future, how many operating systems run on Intel? There are only three. There's the one that Microsoft delivers. There's the one that Red Hat delivers -- because Linux right now is Red Hat. Red Hat has way more control than Linus [Torvalds, the creator of Linux] does.

There's actually a forth, *BSD (Free and Open and Net).

The good news is there are now 150 million Java-enabled phones in the world we'll be at 300 million by the end of the world.

Damn. It doesn't sound like there's gonna be time to even finish this thread.

As for respectful open source programmers, who certainly exist and can dialouge in a dignified manner, I look forward to discussing this with you. But No flame wars, please.

If you're still interested in discussing technology transfers to the Communist Chinese government, here is a thread for you -

Microsoft gives 12 governments a peek [Windows source code given to China, Russia, etc.]