was: Re: setting up a mail server, now somwhat OT

[Mark Neidorff]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, M.Hockings wrote:

> Steven Stern wrote:
> 
> >What's with the .sig?  Registering Linux Users is one step away from making
> >them illegal.
> >  
> >
> 
> Hmmm,  must be a gun owner..
> 
> Yup, registration, taxation, confiscation.  Currently at the taxation 
> stage with vehicles, confiscation stage with some guns..
> 
> I certainly hope it does not happen with Linux (and software/speech in 
> general).
> 
See http://counter.li.org . Its a 10 year old project to get a count of 
the number of linux users and machines around.  When you get counted, you 
get a registration number.  The original idea was that since linux can be 
freely downloaded a way was needed to count the number of machines and 
users.  That's all!

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