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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1705)	8/13/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2617

No, he meant US Security. Apparently there is a move afoot in US congress to tax open source software as it is subversive economically and can be linked with attacks on America by insidious radical elements who wish to sap the will of the people, undermine their morals and economic integrity. It is reasoned that the number one industry in America today will be so much confetti in a few years if open source take hold. It is well known that consultants all die broke whereas powerful companies that overcharge for everything keep getting richer and richer. This is known as the capitalist system. Without the economic engine of software and hardware development, America will have no worldwide industrial advantage as it is well known that they cannot make any thing better than anyone else and they already suffer an enormous trade deficit. Couple this with the imminent market crash when the internet stocks implode after four straight years of no earnings (now where would the money come from?) and you have the making of an economic slide that makes 1929 look like blip on the graph. items: 1. Linus Torvalds is a card carrying, beer drinking Finnish communist who doesn't even like Linux. 2. Bob Young is a Canadian and probably a communist. Why else the 'Red Hat'? 3. Linux doesn't crash regularly except when used with Netscape, a good American program. 4. All Linux programmers have strange eastern sounding names and none have home addresses. 5. A highly disproportionate number of Linux programmers and advocates have the first name "Eric". This is highly suspicious. It sounds like their names where picked by a "control" 6. It is evident that the reliability of Linux is a ruse to lull the unwary into a false sense of security. It is probable that when a majority of people start using it, all systems will crash on a certain date (May Day?) losing all data. By making important server programs free and and better than others, a great number of important net nodes are now dependent on Linux. It is obviously a dependency that is orchestrated with evil intent. Beware. EC<:-}