FOSS is what you make of it. You have the right to make the changes you need from the software yourself, and you are the only person that you can reliably expect to do it.

“Copyleft” or "Reciprocal"… a legal expert opinion.

In this post, I argue that this particular Rubicon has long been crossed, and that we should take a dim view of buying yet more telecommunications infrastructure and services from potential geopolitical foes.
Instead, we should work very hard to regain some semblance of control over our current telecommunications infrastructure - something we have long lost.

The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.