[free-sklyarov] Please no flames for what i'm about to propose...

[Roger Kramer]

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 14:28, you wrote:
> Please do not interpret this as a flame; it's not intended to be.
>
> It seems to me that equating crypto and weaponry is exactly what we
> want to avoid. The pro-DMCA forces babble on and on about how people
> are producing "digital lockpicks" and "digital crowbars" and other
> nasty things. The last thing we want to say is, "Yeah, Sklyarov's
> product is a weapon." No, we want to argue that DeCSS, eBook
> Processor, and whatever comes next are useful, protected tools harmful
> only to the profits of selfish corporations.
>

Mike,

I understand the image thing, but as I consider reality evasion to be The 
Genuiiine Root of All Evil, I'm uneasy having to "pull one over" on the 
public.  ...and I feel marketing tassles growing on my shoes. ;)   To claim 
as Adrian did it's not a weapon is to deny uses we've all already seen. 
Anyway, as was observed EVERYTHING is a potential weapon. 

As for the image issue... Everyone knows Americans are all gun totin' 
WWF-watching shoot first, question later lunatics. If they (the majority) are 
on our side...no image problem!

Ok, I'm done...   kill_thread( self(), NOW ).  ; )

roger