[free-sklyarov] Concerns from a potential customer (fwd)

[Pablos Kadrevis]

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Date: Sunday, July 22, 2001 3:16 PM +0000
From: "shafik at shafik.net" <shafik at shafik.net>
To: "nicehair at boycottadobe.com" <nicehair at boycottadobe.com>
Subject: Concerns from a potential customer (fwd)

	This is a copy of the e-mail I sent to Adobe address you helpfully
provided, hopefully it will make a differnence, although I fear it will
fall on deaf ears.

Take care

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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 15:15:06 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
From: shafik at shafik.net
To: jcristof at adobe.com, dstyerwa at adobe.com, lvacante at adobe.com,
     ablatchf at adobe.com, skrueger at adobe.com, gbabbit at adobe.com,
wsaso at adobe.com,      jwarnock at adobe.com, cgeschke at adobe.com,
bchizen at adobe.com,
     snarayen at adobe.com, mdemo at adobe.com, gfreeman at adobe.com,
     cpouliot at adobe.com, jstephens at adobe.com, mdyrdahl at adobe.com,
     lepstein at adobe.com, lsellers at adobe.com, blamkin at adobe.com
Subject: Concerns from a potential customer

	After reading the coverage about the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov
from www.theregister.co.uk, www.eff.org and eventually
www.boycottadobe.com. I feel I have gathered enough facts to condemn your
company for such a awful abuse of my Constitutionally protected rights.
The DMCA is a misconceived law, that attempts to take away every Americans
right to fair use and in my opinion to protect companies that do not want
to bother with real security but give their customers symbolic security
which does no one any good and is the key reason why the Internet was
plagued by the CodeRed worm this week.

	I have been considering for a while if I should bother trying out
Photoshop after playing with "The Gimp" www.gimp.org, but at this point I
doubt I will be purchasing any Adobe products ever and I will be
encouraging everyone I know to avoid Adobe products.

	I will also be doing my best to show people in other companies as
well as mine how powerful "The Gimp" is and how they can replace Photoshop
with it. I am not that familiar with all your products but I will be on
the lookout for products that can replace products that you produce and
educating people that free alternatives exist.

	As a company you should be ashamed for at least two reasons, 1
that you could not create a security mechanism that was nothing more then
basic and 2 that you are contributing to the erosion of basic American
rights and protections. Maybe you should all take some time and read :

		The Constitution
		"The Federalist Papers"
		Tocqueville's "Democracy in America"
		F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"
		Bruce Schneier's "The Futility of Digital Copy Protection"
			http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0105.html#3
	
	For your security team I might advise the following reading:

		Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography"
			AND
		http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram.html

Your truely
Shafik Yaghmour



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