I have been involved in legislative education (we don't do lobbying) for many years. A favoured tactic by legislators toward 'good' legislation (what the people want) but that is opposed by lobbyists (business interests) is to create a commission to study the matter. This makes legislators happy because they can then tell both sides that they are interested in the issue and working on it.
If necessary, we may have to adopt this tactic. Point out how involved and complicated this legislation is. Ask if the financial ramifications to the voters has been fully examined. This includes things such as increasing the load on an already overburdened (in most places) judicial system or that the new-found powers will allow software companies to systematically gouge (more so than now) the poor, humble consumer.
Hmm, on second thought, perhaps we should encourage UCITA! Droves of M$ drones would be driven to open sourced software - including Linux.
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I have been involved in legislative education (we don't do lobbying) for many years. A favoured tactic by legislators toward 'good' legislation (what the people want) but that is opposed by lobbyists (business interests) is to create a commission to study the matter. This makes legislators happy because they can then tell both sides that they are interested in the issue and working on it.
If necessary, we may have to adopt this tactic. Point out how involved and complicated this legislation is. Ask if the financial ramifications to the voters has been fully examined. This includes things such as increasing the load on an already overburdened (in most places) judicial system or that the new-found powers will allow software companies to systematically gouge (more so than now) the poor, humble consumer.
Hmm, on second thought, perhaps we should encourage UCITA! Droves of M$ drones would be driven to open sourced software - including Linux.