RE: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites commentsfrom Community Members

[linux-os]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
> > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:04:14 CST, root said:
> > > This legislation Will be voted on in the Rules Committee
> > > Jan 17 and will be presented for
> > > ratification to the Full Tribal Council on February 14,
> > > 2005. This legislation is designed
> > > to protect trade secrets for both open source development
> > > and general public licensing
> > > schemes as well as proprietary technology developed in the
> > > commerical sector.
> >
> > I fail to see how you can *possibly* have "trade secret"
> > rights in open source
> > software.  At least not in any way interoperable with any
> > other country's usage
> > of the term "trade secret".
>
> Nor is it compatible with the definitions of the words "public" and
> "secret" in the English language...

These "Indian Nations" create and use special meanings for
common words. For instance "No" becomes a "No clause" that
could mean "yes" in certain instances like bypassing state
taxes and running casinos. They have even been able to resurrect
"tribes" that have long ago been assimilated and their
"reservations" sold as farm land. Mohegan comes to mind.

I suspect that the proposed "Act" displayed on the www.gagugi.org
web-page is either a hoax, some kind of hard-to-understand joke,
or the scribblings of idiots.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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