[ale] Two awesome essays on open source and copyright

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Both The Register and Linux today are carrying the full text of the
English translation.  The Register has links to the original Spanish.

    http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24858.html
and
    http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-009-26-OS-MS-LL

--Michael

aaron writes:
 > I could not get the cache: translation URL's of the Dr. Edgar David 
 > Villanueva Nuñez letter to come up for me so I dug up the original and 
 > piped through Google's language tool:
 > 
 > Original Spanish text:
 > http://www.gnu.org.pe/rescon.html
 > 
 > xlation:
 > http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org.pe%2Frescon.html&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
 > 
 > On Sunday 05 May 2002 22:26, you wrote:
 > > There are two really spectacular essays I've just been made away of.
 > > The first was also on slashdot yesterday, so you may have heard of it
 > > already, but if not, check it out.  Apparently Peru is trying to pass
 > > a bill requiring all government software purchases be free software.
 > > The local MS rep wrote a letter expaining the errors in the bill and
 > > Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez, Congressman of the Republica of
 > > Perú, wrote back explaining in fine detail the error of his arguments.
 > [...snip...]
 > > Read the letter here
 > > <http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TvfSi6UFJpQC:www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html+&hl=en&lr=lang_en> or at:
 > > http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:TvfSi6UFJpQC:www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html+&hl=en&lr=lang_en
 > >
 > 
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