FYI
This cause will effect accessibility and the availability
of information to all. A demonstration is planned at
Adobe in San Jose, CA this Monday.
Frank Arnold
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Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] Letter to Adobe HR
Date: 21 Jul 2001 06:21:52 -0500
From: Ryan Marsh <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Michael D. Crawford" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Wow, you've got some balls! You did the right thing.
On 21 Jul 2001 00:52:06 -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I sent the following email just now to Cheryl Erickson, a member of the
> Adobe HR Department who had been considering me for a position with the
> company.
>
> Best,
>
> Mike
> ---
> Subject: I withdraw my application on principle
>
> Cheryl,
>
> This is quite difficult for me, but I feel that as a matter of principal I
> must withdraw my application for the Photoshop Software Engineering Manager
> and the other positions I recently applied for at Adobe Systems.
>
> The following letter which I just mailed to many of my friends and family
> explains why in more detail. But if you don't want to read the whole
> thing, at least read this:
>
> http://www.goingware.com/reputation/
>
> Thank you for your help. I look forward to better days, when programmers
> can do their work without fear.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael D. Crawford
> --
> Subject: Free Dmitry
>
> Friends,
>
> I have long held the belief that computer programs are constitutionally
> protected free speech. They are, after all, how us programmers
> communicate with each other. This is also the opinion of at least one
> federal court, although it is yet to be tested by the Supreme Court.
>
> However, on July 16, Russian computer programmer Dmitry Sklarov was
> arrested by the FBI for writing a computer program and presenting a
> paper on it at a security conference in Las Vegas.
>
> His paper, "eBooks Security: Theory and Practice", exposed the woefully
> inadequate security schemes used to copy protect Adobe eBooks ("secure"
> electronic publications, basically encrypted PDF files).
>
> If you have PowerPoint, you can get his presentation here:
>
> http://www.download.ru/defcon.ppt
>
> You can purchase, and download a free trial version of Advanced eBook
> Processor here:
>
> http://www.elcomsoft.com/aebpr.html
>
> Rather thank thanking him for revealing their engineering flaws, Adobe
> made a complaint to the FBI, and the FBI arrested him under the Digital
> Millenium Copyright Act. He is being held without bail, out of
> communication with his wife and children, in a foreign country, facing a
> $500,000 fine and five years in federal prison.
>
> The digital millenium copyright act is clearly unconstitutional, not
> just in that it violates free speech for programmers, but that it
> violates fair use - the right of citizens to make limited copies of
> copyrighted materials for certain uses such as backup and academic
> research.
>
> If you want to know more about Dmitry's case, please visit:
>
> http://www.boycottadobe.com/
>
> You'll find pictures there of Dmitry, and of his wife and children, who
> I am sure miss him greatly.
>
> And please consider joining the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is
> pressing two other court cases to try to have the DMCA ruled
> unconstitutional and will lend his support to Dmitry once the U.S.
> Marshalls tell them where he is, you can do so here:
>
> http://www.eff.org/support/
>
> I leave you with the following words of wisdom, spoken 100 years ago.
>
> Make a Bonfire of Your Reputations
> http://www.goingware.com/reputation/
>
> It's hard for me to write this letter as I just applied for a position as
> Photoshop Software Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems, the creator of
> eBooks. Times have been hard for me and my little family for quite some
> time, and that would be a good job for me for which I feel I am quite
> qualified, but I know it would be wrong to fail to speak out on this abuse
> of Dmitry's constitutional rights, and the rights of software engineers
> everywhere.
>
> Please pass this mail on to anyone who might be interested to hear it.
>
> Ever Faithful,
>
> Michael D. Crawford
> GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
> http://www.goingware.com/
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>
> Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
>
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Regards,
-ryan
The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience,
and hubris, but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.
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