Red Hat to Lead the March on San Francisco City Hall to Fight for Intellectual Property Freedom.Business Editors/High Tech Writers --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2002 Time: 10:30 a.m. Date: Thursday, August 15th Venue: From LinuxWorld, (Moscone Center) to San Francisco City Hall The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief "City Beautiful" movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RHAT RHAT Red Hat (stock symbol) RHAT Rainwater Harvesting Association of Tanzania RHAT Register Hba Attributes ), will join Red Hat executives and other open source software advocates in a march to City Hall to lobby for the newly proposed Digital Software Security Act (DSSA DSSA Domain Specific Software Architecture DSSA Drivers Sound Stage Adjustment (advanced auto audio feature) DSSA Dynamic Scalable Server Architecture DSSA Direct Supply Support Activity ). The march will thank California for being one of the states willing to stand up to Microsoft in the anti-trust trials and to ask them to take it one step further by backing the DSSA. The proposed act will require state agencies in California to only buy software from companies that do not place restrictions on use or access to source code. The agencies would also be given the freedom to make and distribute copies of the software. For software to be acceptable to the state, it is not enough that it is technically capable of fulfilling a task, but that the contractual condition for purchase and/or licensing must satisfy a series of requirements regarding the license. This law has three objectives; security and open standards, obtaining the greatest value for funds spent, and stimulation of competition within software development, support and implementation. It is in response to a number of pieces of proposed and existing legislation that limit civil liberties and programming freedom such as SSSCA SSSCA Security Systems Standards and Certification Act , DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) A U.S. law enacted in late 1998 that provides penalties for developing hardware or software that overrides copy protection schemes for digital media. , UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act) A controversial law that deals with software contracts and licensing drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). etc. Red Hat will join those marching for software freedom around the world; in Peru, in Germany, in the UK, in New Zealand and in Finland. Right now, the future of open software is at stake -- and Red Hat is leading the charge to fight for Intellectual Property Freedom. More details on the DSSA can be found at www.redhat.com/opensourcenow . If you'd be interested in covering the march or an interview with Red Hat on intellectual property freedom please call: Dayna Muller: 919/931-8991 Anuj Nayar: 617/784-7691 Red Hat press office: 919/754-3700, extension 44516 |
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