On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Andrew Savory wrote:
> Rumour has it that the McCarthy report [2] has been withdrawn from next
> week's European Parliament agenda.
>
> [2] http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/amccarthy0206/index.en.html
Aye - I've heard the same; but Cordis still shows it on the r
Hi,
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Andrew Savory wrote:
> Some of you may already be aware that on 1st September the European
> parliament will vote [1] on the issue of software patents.
>
> [1] http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0620/index.en.html
Rumour has it that the McCarthy report [2] has been withd
Terrific. In Germany, political parties _are_ charitable organizations
("gemeinnützig") and donations to them are fully tax-deductable.
Regards
Henning
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:28, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Reid wrote:
> > Bill, are you seriousl
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Hi peeps,
my colleagues are just back from the live demo
Hi peeps,
my colleagues are just back from the live demonstration in front of the EU
offices. Several hundreds of people where effectively there, and while we
will never know whether such actions have any effect, I was proud to be
able to tell them that all ASF sites were participating with the on
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Reid wrote:
> Bill, are you seriously saying that laws in the EU will not have any impact
> on the way the ASF carries on it's affairs? It saddens me as I thought we'd
> moved away from this sort of small minded view of the world :(
No, it means that, at least as far as
This particular line of reasoning doesn't sit very well with me.
Bill, are you seriously saying that laws in the EU will not have any impact
on the way the ASF carries on it's affairs? It saddens me as I thought we'd
moved away from this sort of small minded view of the world :(
david
> At 12:4
At 12:44 PM 8/26/2003, Danny Angus wrote:
>If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
>software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
I will say that I'm pleased the members were able to turn the ship so quickly
to support the initiative, it sho
Danny Angus a écrit :
If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
+1, this EU works (as many others), is a shame
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> In any case, I'd like to advise everyone to state your opposition by
> just writing to your Representative/Member of EU Parliament: see
> http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/
> p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN&iorig=home for their mail and postal
> addresses.
And when you do - _please_ use a fax or
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to
> opposing software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the
> demo.
Same here.
Stefan
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> > I predict that it will be really ugly. Fortunately, there are Open
> > Source friendly companies like IBM, so with their patronage, Open
> > Source can succeed. Should they turn face, ugly will be an
understatement.
> Agreed, but did you know: [that IBM is the world’s most prolific patenter]
On 26/08/2003, at 10:22, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
I predict that it will be really ugly. Fortunately, there are Open
Source
friendly companies like IBM, so with their patronage, Open Source can
succeed. Should they turn face, ugly will be an understatement.
Agreed, but did you know:
'As the world’
> Is having the real home page one click or 60-seconds away for one day
> really something that bugs the Apache userbase a lot?
No. I think what you did was fine in that regard, and have already
commented on it. We are apparently still dealing with mail-lag. :-)
> I know that patents will be a
rom: Justin Erenkrantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 26 August 2003 18:07
> > To: community@apache.org
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: EU Software Patents
> >
> >
> > --On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:09:14 +0100 Andrew Savory
> > <[EM
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 th
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. People count on the ASF, and while we may want them to
f
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Danny Angus wrote:
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
Ditto here: Apache standing up against SW patents might show the industry
they can't play nice with open sourc
On 26/08/2003, at 07:44, Danny Angus wrote:
If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to
opposing
software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
d.
+1 and +1!
just FYI: the ISOC members are currently discussing the same issues but
it's probably also too
Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
If someone (since there seems to be a lot of people +1'ing it) can come
up with a *suitable* page for us to post, if we get a go-ahead from the
board, then I'll post it (at least on www).
I'd like to see a page contain:
- the ASF logo so that this is obvious this is our
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
+1
Sander
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--On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 19:18:38 +0200 Gianugo Rabellino
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There is an "almost standard" page at
http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/demo.en.html, so it would just be a
matter of downloading and setting an .htaccess rule. But I understand
that it might be pretty late t
Danny Angus wrote:
If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
Same for both here, if it wasn't clear enough already. :-)
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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Danny Angus wrote:
>
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
+1 for me
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* Thom May wrote:
> * Danny Angus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
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>> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
>> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
> ditto and ditto.
+1.
nd
Andrew Savory wrote:
Some of you may already be aware that on 1st September the European
parliament will vote [1] on the issue of software patents.
...
In protest against the directive, an online demo [3] is being
co-ordinated, proposing that web sites shut [4] on 27th August.
Obviously,
the more
According to Danny Angus:
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
+1!
ciao...
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At the risk of sounding like an AOL user, - me too!
> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to
opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
+1 for both.
david
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* Danny Angus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
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> If anyone's counting a show of hands here I'm a European and +1 to opposing
> software patents in Europe and +1 to the ASF supporting the demo.
ditto and ditto.
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> --On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:09:14 +0100 Andrew Savory
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I'd like to propose that we "close" (ie swap the front page for a
> > protest
Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
I'd like to propose that we "close" (ie swap the front page for a
protest page) as many of the Apache web sites as possible.
Not to belittle this protest, but we do a good job of bringing our own
sites down ourselves (or UnitedLayer does).
If we were to do this, IMHO, it
--On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:09:14 +0100 Andrew Savory
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to propose that we "close" (ie swap the front page for a
protest page) as many of the Apache web sites as possible.
Not to belittle this protest, but we do a good job of bringing our own
sites down our
Hi,
Some of you may already be aware that on 1st September the European
parliament will vote [1] on the issue of software patents.
This is something that will directly affect all ASF projects, despite the
care that we take in guaranteeing copyright of contributed code. Approved
patents are not m
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