Free Software Law in Peruvian Congress

An Anonymous Coward writes "There is a story on oreillynet.com on the response by a Peruvian Congressman to Microsoft's letter opposing a proposed Free Software Law. Here's the translated letter and this is the original letter that Microsoft submitted in response to the proposed law. It's always cool to see governments trying to enact these kinds of laws and watch the Microsoft backlash against them :)."

Comments

Thoughts on "The Bill"

[Wintersmute]

Everytime the letters refer to "the Bill," I thought, "yeah, buddy. I know all about The Bill. The Billmeister. Billinator." And then I thought, "oh no, not that Bill. The proposed law. Duh."

Hard to keep straight.

Re:Scoreboard!

[sam_handelman]

Yow! Where can I get an informed legislator like Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez to represent me?

Masked Man #1: Good morning, Congressman.
Dr. Nunez: Eh? Donde estoy? Quien es?
Masked Man #1: Oh, Dammit. Does anyone here speak spanish?
Masked Man #2: Give him a moment for the sedative to wear off.
Dr. Nunez: Americans. You are here from the CIA, no doubt? This is a coup, heh? You people are amateurs, you know? I've seen -
Masked Man #1: No, no, mr. congressman. We're with the US special congressional appropriation mission, and we'd like to swear you in as soon as possible.
Dr. Nunez: Swear me where?
Masked Man #2: Into the US congress. We're terribly short of capable legislators, so we've been apropriateing people from y'know, other counties. Where is Peru, anyway?
Masked Man #1: East Africa, I think. Next to Georgia.
Dr. Nunez: You sound like CIA to me.
Masked Man #2: No, no. We're sorry to rush you like this, usually we give the new members a few days to recover from the tranq. dart, but you're chairing the house armed services committee, and we need you to get on the job quick before they appropriate any more money for missile defense.
Masked Man #1: The people of the state of arizona are lucky to have you, sir.

Peruvian Reaction

[smagruder]

Gates: I'm the richest man on Earth, made all my money from the software business, and I'm asking you all to acquire or develop software in such a way as to make me, an *American*, even richer.

Peru: Riiiiiiiiiiight.

Re:You're all karma whores...

[Lonath]

This is a good idea. I've been bouncing around level 50 for a while, and I've decided to start another character.

I think I'll choose the Troll class. I've heard that Trolls are really hard to advance, but if you're willing to put a lot of effort into it, you can make progress. The main thing is that you have to have your ObviousSarcasm skill waaay up first, or else people won't notice it when you post, and you'll get level drained repeatedly.

IMO, the KarmaWhore class is too easy to advance, and doesn't really get any of the interesting powers. I could sit here all day and wait for new articles, then post the "Here's the text of the article in case the server gets /.ed" posts that always get a few levels worth of experience points. However, that gets old and it isn't really challenging. It's all about timing and cut-n-paste. Boring. This class can be scripted too easily.

Although the GNU/Linux/Zealot class is probably the easiest to advance, it's painful that you have to forget how to program as you advance up through the levels. That's why I don't want to play this class. I also don't like the fact that this class can almost be played as a 'bot like ELIZA. You just have to parse the article title and text, then generate a response. Again, it's too easy to script this class, and I like a challenge.