Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:36 UTC
A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the Internet. At the heart of this international political spat is the unique influence that the US federal government enjoys over Internet addresses and the master database of top-level domain names - a legacy of the Internet's origins years ago. The Bush administration recently raised objections to the proposed addition of .xxx as a red-light district for pornographers, for instance, a veto power that no other government is able to wield.
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right, of course, linux is not a copy of unix. in fact even if there were no unix, linux would have magically appeared and created its own user permission system just like unix would have. its monolitic kernel would magically come to Linus in a dream. Seriously, go read a book or better yet, read the flame war on cpm.os.minix when linux was announced and you will see how much of a copy of unix it is.