Re: [Sheflug] Wikileaks

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 11 January 2011 16:10:12 Perry Ismangil wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 13:57, Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > their web presence isn't easily
> > requisitionable by any single national legislation.
> 
> However as we found out with the WikiLeaks/Assange case, even one
> nation's legislation (UK, US or Sweden) is enough to sufficiently
> cripple things like cloud stuff (Amazon), financial (payment
> processors and accounts). Even more so when we say the 'Internet'
> most stuff can't be done without touching the US soil in one way
> or another....

Yes. The examples of software patents and winduhs / Unix / Linux 
interoperability are probably good examples of something similar....

http://www.valimaki.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interoperability

The case that Jeremy Allison took to the EU court is interesting to 
read about.  Samba vs Microsoft.


Richard
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