Re: [fsf-community-team] Libreboot.Org Urges Support for Proposed 'Free Software' Law in New Hampshire - Slashdot

[Ian Kelling]

MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> writes:

> I live in Massachusetts, about 35 miles from the New Hampshire border.  RMS 
> lives jsut a few towns away.  This is an interesting article, but
> other than reading the article, I don't understand what action you think we 
> ought to take regarding this.  Legislators in any particular state
> legislature care primarily about retaining the support of the people who 
> elected them.  They don't even care much about the opinions of
> people in other parts of the same state, and they sure as hell don't care 
> about the opinions of people in a different state.

The software that NH uses is made globally, so, the actions/opinions of
software developers outside NH already matters. Lawmakers should be
trying to do what is right and good and just and that includes accepting
help figuring that out from people outside their state who want to help,
especially those with expertise in some specific issue.

It is my understanding that lots of new ideas in state laws get their
start in some single state with the help of experts and activists that
live across the country, then that law inspires other states to make
similar laws, often copying much of the first law.

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