HP Backs Off DMCA Threat

Bruce Perens wrote with this interesting reversal: "News.com reports HP has backed off of its DMCA threat." Which makes SNOsoft's official response thankfully beside the point now. Update: 08/02 05:37 GMT by T : Declan McCullagh points out this CNET story, which includes words from HP, Snosoft, and Bruce Perens. Writes Declan: "HP blames the snafu on... their lawyers!"

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Re:Hollow Victory

[mccalli]

It is a fact of history that in World War II, American infantry units were the only ones to get progressively more mechanized as a campaign went on.

Er...speaking as the son of soldier in the Royal Tank Corps, I can emphatically tell you that this 'fact' is wrong. Others did this too.

...just about every man in a US unit had some experience with motor vehicles. Most owned their own; many if not all repaired their own.

As did the UK. In fact, more so as the UK had undergone severe petrol rationing, industrial production had entirely been moved to the war effort thus depriving people of spares, and so tinkering with cars was absolutely required.

I take your point, but please don't be so chauvinistic about it.

Cheers,
Ian