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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
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Chad R. Meiners <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
: 
: "Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
: news:bhp3p5$84l$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de...
:> Do consumers and producers really have
:> the freedom to reject or accept DMCA players and MS streaming software?
: 
: Yes, of course!
: 
: Remember freedom does not mean that all choices are equal.  We are all free
: to act morally or wickedly, but we encounter many situations where it is
: more difficult to be moral than wicked.

:-) See Brecht's threepenny opera, How To Survive.

See also the latest EU's antitrust procedure involving Microsoft.