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What I personally think is most exciting if this gets adopted, is not the bill itself but that US "hackers" see that they can influence politics. I've always be
by stse 17y ago
What I personally think is most exciting if this gets adopted, is not the bill itself but that US "hackers" see that they can influence politics. I've always been impressed that you, even early on, had organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons. But when you talk with Americans today in regards to things like the Pirate Party, you're mostly meet with overall disappointment over the US political system. So hopefully you now get the chance to find a different way to do something similar.
Edit: If there isn't already one, someone should make a site for forming and joining interest groups.
- davidw 17y ago> US "hackers" see that they can influence politics. Err... the ones pushing this through are VC's, who are, pretty much by definition, a fairly well to do group. Closer to hackers than, say, Warren Buffet, probably, but still, not quite the same thing.
- idlewords 17y agoI was going to say... watching the financial and power elite push through a pet bill is hardly that inspirational. Let's see hackers push through some real patent or copyright reform before we start passing around the cigars.
- stse 17y agoThat's awesome, getting downvoted and commented on for the one word I put inside quotation marks. I was referring to hackers as in Hacker News i.e. the "startup community". Also it's pretty much impossible to do anything political, especially in the US, without the help of influential people. I could tell you the details of how it's done over here, but something tells me you're not interested.
- davidw 17y agoI didn't downvote you, and I commented because, well, I think you were to some degree wrong (but not wrong in a bad, downvotable way, just incorrect). The "startup community" is not what is driving this bill, it's the VC's.