Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd 410
An anonymous reader writes "ESR, one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement and much of the software we use everyday, writes an open letter to U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd. ESR points out the concerns of 'the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century' about politicians attempts to lock down our Internet or our tools. A portion of the letter reads: 'I can best introduce you to our concerns by quoting another of our philosopher/elders, John Gilmore. He said: “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches, it’s also a sort of reactive social organism composed of the people who keep those wires humming and those switches clicking. John Gilmore is one of them. I’m another. And there are some things we will not stand having done to our network.'"
Politicians are only experts at getting re-elected (Score:5, Funny)
Politicians are always attempting to be experts at everything. This failure is magnified when they start talking about the Internet, because on the Internet, everyone's an expert.
Right?
Obviously (Score:5, Funny)
” To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches"
Well of course not, as every (ex-) politician knows, it's a series of tubes.
Or (Score:4, Funny)
Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or... these guys are going to take your balls. They're going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press-release style. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us.
Re:Politicians are only experts at getting re-elec (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obviously (Score:5, Funny)
” To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches"
Well of course not, as every (ex-) politician knows, it's a series of tubes, full of cats.
TFTFY
Dear Congress... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Congress,
You are damage. We will route around you.
-- the Internet
My Open Letter to Chris Todd (Score:4, Funny)
Re:uhhh. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Politicians are only experts at getting re-elec (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself! I'm a marmoset
Re:Dumb (Score:5, Funny)
Re:uhhh. (Score:4, Funny)
Who cares? Madison's dead and he's just one of the founders.
Re:To Which the Reaction Will Be (Score:5, Funny)
.. the IT world full of contrarians...
No it's not.
Re:Politicians are only experts at getting re-elec (Score:5, Funny)