> > Ben, you said you are applying the 'Divide and Conquer' approach to > patents (since patents are probably also a real problem in other > industries). If software patents as a whole is too large a chunk, > perhaps dividing out free software as the first step will be easier? I > don't know the statistics, however I'd expect the majority of people > interested in ending software patents also have a soft spot for free > software. >
Rather than going off guesswork I think the proportion of people interested in ending software patents that have a soft spot for FS would need to be investigated before any action was taken based on it. How do we know it's not just the active and visible people, and the ones we happen to meet? _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
