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interstice) wrote2009-04-21 05:42 pm
interstice) wrote2009-04-21 05:42 pm
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I predict that within four years, the US federal government will make a serious attempt to nationalize and/or directly destroy/reorganize the Free Software Foundation.
The FSF will respond by re-incorporating elsewhere (Sweden?); transferring copyrights thereto; and leaving a powerless shell subsidiary in the US as a decoy/scapegoat target.
The US will not accept the validity of the FSF-in-exile, and the already-grey market of technically-illegal free software (such as VLC and decss implementations) will become a true black market.
The FSF will respond by re-incorporating elsewhere (Sweden?); transferring copyrights thereto; and leaving a powerless shell subsidiary in the US as a decoy/scapegoat target.
The US will not accept the validity of the FSF-in-exile, and the already-grey market of technically-illegal free software (such as VLC and decss implementations) will become a true black market.