[ale] CBDTPA is DOA

[hirsch at zapmedia.com (hirsch at zapmedia.com)]

This is very good new.  Sen. Pat Leahy (D. Vermont) has, as usual,
done the right thing and is going to strongly oppose the CBDTPA (which
would have made it illegal to use Linux as it currently exists, among
other things).

> From the CLUE-Talk list, Charlie Oriez posting:

> Wired just broke a story

> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51425,00.html

> It's dead Jim.  At least for this year.  Thank you notes should go to 
> Leahy.  And yes, I do think Leahy can make it stick.  


--Michael

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