Mat Bowles

This blog is my personal space where I write about whatever takes my fancy on an occasional basis. My main blog on politics and current affairs can be found at Not Little England

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Devon born, Yorkshire based, analyst. Most of my writing now appears on my personal journal but on occasions I've been known to write at Liberal Conspiracy and Lib Dem Voice. I used to also run Not Little England but life and time constraints meant I put it on hiatus and never got back to it. I'm engaged to Jennie and do some work with her for local parties and businesses. I'm Chair of Brighouse Lib Dems, and a candidate in the Calderdale MBC local elections.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Samizdata - Governments should ban Linux

Another item prompts me to get around to installing Ubuntu; Governments should ban Linux | Samizdata.net:
We need a licensing scheme, headed by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, for all programming tools so that only trusted individuals may use them, and that inappropriate use of them is communicated via the internet to the government. To put it simply, either Linux dies - or the whole of human creativity will become a stagnant swamp.
They had me worried for a few seconds. Only a few mind...
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