Free Software in Chains

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Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) has introduced legislation that could make software liberty illegal. Business Week has done a piece on it, the first I’ve seen in mainstream media. The free software community has already been excercised about it for quite some time. The best information on it comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

This kind of thing really burns me. There are only two possibilities:

1. Fritz Hollings does not understand how his proposed legislation undercuts genuine, legitimate freedoms, and no one is explaining it in terms he can understand.
2. He does realize the problem, and he only cares about the money Disney and other corporations can give him.

It would appear that the second option is the only believable scenario, which makes the honorable senator the worst kind of American: one who does not believe in freedom and justice for all.

If you believe that software freedom is a good thing, make your voice heard.

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