Noel J. Bergman wrote:
I am in favor of opposing software patents (they aren not working out great in the USA), but we should not disadvantage our users. If we post anything, as we did regarding the JCP, it should not prevent our users from easily using the site.
Pardon me, but I would say that there is quite a difference between a protest against a company ruling and a european-wide regulation. In the latter case, ther might just be no way out.
People count on the ASF, and while we may want them to focus on a problem with great potential for damage, we do not not want to inspire ill-will because someone could not access something they needed from our site in a timely manner.
Is having the real home page one click or 60-seconds away for one day really something that bugs the Apache userbase a lot?
This said, I'm sure too that this protest will not help much, and I know that patents will be a huge issue for years to come. Yet I'd like to thing that I did all that I can to prevent (at least some) damage.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com (Now blogging at: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/gianugo/)
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