I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Help Stop the Sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm". Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to... In case you haven't seen this. I expect a lot of FOSS people and organisations are at risk. Roderick
On April 26, 2020 8:29:53 PM GMT+12:00, Roderick Aldridge <rod.aldridge1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Help Stop the Sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm".
Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to...
In case you haven't seen this. I expect a lot of FOSS people and organisations are at risk.
Roderick
Thanks for raising awareness of that issue. I believe, WLUG should add their voice to that call. Doesn't matter that our ORG is under the NZ top level domain. Comments are welcome. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
All done
On 27/04/2020, at 10:05 AM, john <jaytee21(a)slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
Agreed.
Cheers John
On 27/04/20 8:29 am, Peter Reutemann wrote:
I believe, WLUG should add their voice to that call.
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I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Help Stop the Sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm".
Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to...
In case you haven't seen this. I expect a lot of FOSS people and organisations are at risk.
Added myself to the petition. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
I did too it was a surprise to see how many of our ex members have signed recently Cheers John.. On 27/04/20 1:00 pm, Peter Reutemann wrote:
I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Help Stop the Sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm".
Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to...
In case you haven't seen this. I expect a lot of FOSS people and organisations are at risk. Added myself to the petition.
Cheers, Peter
I just took part in an Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign titled "Help Stop the Sale of Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm".
Will you join me? Take action here: https://act.eff.org/action/help-stop-the-sale-of-public-interest-registry-to...
In case you haven't seen this. I expect a lot of FOSS people and organisations are at risk.
"ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)" -- source: https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-o... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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