per http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html:
 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

that says it all. Govt work is free as in beer.

...there's no drm. and maybe until it runs Linux.

lol. I would love to see someone do that in a standard text editor. Select all text, Delete it all, and replace it with a capital 'S'. very useful that. It's long past time for vi and emacs to die (let the flaming commence).

does context-sensitive auto-complete count?

spoof the agent, just like everyone else who uses Opera

My primary concern with low-cost services, is that of transactional security. I don't want to expose my CC to compromise over only 1$. Paypal is just as bad. if I subscribe to 100 1$ services per month, how much does that increase my exposure, vs one transaction for 100$? low cost webservices may be the answer to making money online, but I'm not here so a provider can make a buck.

'bout time. Perhaps now, RMS will shut up about it.

if this works, then so does my "Designated Smoking Area" hat.

he can't make us call it "gnu-mono", so it must be bad.

It seems to me that the powers that be have it backward. instead of using technology to enforce the law, they should use it to make the law irrelevant. The internet could have saved us from many laws, but no, they just went and wrote more of them.

do you think that everyone woke up late may 1941, and said, "Hey, Lets have a Holocaust!". the answer of course is No. small changes like this culminated in atrocity. seriously, search slashdot for "yro germany", and tell me you don't see a disturbing picture appearing over the last 2 years. probably not a sign of impending genocide, but that was only one aspect of the regime. everyone focuses on it (and rightly so), but it's not the only bad thing they did.

http://xkcd.com/261/ lolz

I still think the op meant godwin's (the context implies such anyway), there is in fact a "goddard's law" internet meme. http://wiki.freetalklive.com/Goddard's_Law

I hadn't heard of it before today either.

if your in the us, political media must recieve equal time and access (with in limits)

See, where i live, you could sue over that to achieve redress.