hi clive, > Andreas wrote: > >> Mailing lists can display many many differnt and even >> contradicting ideas. I >> don't know why you think the general Scribus list member >> dislikes the idea >> of IP. >> > > I admit I may be tarring the general listmember with the same brush, but it > was the very agressive way that a few weeks ago a number of list members > dealt with a woman whose only crime seemed to be having a rather overlong > signature which advertised a service to assess patents. Perhaps I was wrong > to assume that a dislike of one particular sort of IP indicated a dislike of > other sorts of IP. If I was wrong I apologise. >
i was one one of the persons that has criticized the footer and i can assure you: - that i have some (deeper) understanding in economics, - i have been concerned with "IP" for several years now. my personal opinion is, that nowadays the IP system gets abused by too many people and while it still has reasons to exists, too many major lobbists are working on making it worse and worse in order to protect their existing business. somehow, i also think that the "commercial" IP system should not come in the way of more "social" experiments... you may also be aware of the fact that it's not a bad idea to avoid signatures in your mails to a public forum. if you can't resist, the netiquette defines limits to the length of such signatures. personally, i consider that it's a bad habit to use a signature which promotes services which have nothing to do with the goal of the mailing list you are posting to (no idea if this has been formalized in the netiquette). finally, my intent was to get her to comply to some basic rules which i think are the base for communicating (in my opinion she was breaking too many of those rules). i don't know if you think that my mails were aggressive, but i assure you that i didn't want to "aggress" her. ciao a.l.e
