An alert from Red Hat (the Linux vendor) about the SSSCA. If you're in the US, you may want to act on it before this thing gets into Congress. Why? Well, for one, such a law could cripple open-source software, essentially setting up a government-sanctioned 100% Microsoft/Intel monopoly in the interest of moving everybody onto locked-down "trusted-client" computers and protecting the movie/recording industries' precious content from file swapping or unlicensed viewing.

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