[lir-wg] Remove all games from your laptop before going tothe RIPE meeting

How are they defining the term, 'Game'?  Surely it won't be long before they
have to outlaw Internet browsing due to the various applets the pop up here
and there.  How did that law get passed, and what is it supposed to achieve?

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnd Vehling [mailto:av at nethead.de]
Sent: 05 September 2002 16:09
To: Daniel Karrenberg
Cc: John Crain; 'D'HERTOG Pieterjan'; lir-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [lir-wg] Remove all games from your laptop before going
tothe RIPE meeting


Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> 
> At 08:59 AM 9/5/2002, John Crain wrote:
> >So have they banned the Microsoft operating system that comes with card
> >games etc. as standard:)
> 
> Yes. They are checking at the borders on only admit laptops with *ix and
*BSD
> operating systems.

Are those the OS's that come with the game "nethack"?

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