-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2002.12.31 13:44 Bruce Perens wrote:
I hope no-one just went forth and did this....There's a long discussion below. I'm asking you to do something once you read that discussion: Please write to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and tell them something like this (please elaborate - everyone discounts rubber-stamp comments):To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Approve of draft policy - disapprove of software patenting. I request that W3C approve the draft patent policy, because it's a compromise that protects the right of Open Source / Free Software programmers to implement W3C standards. I object to software patents, and support efforts to eliminate them at the legislative level.
The current draft policy is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/patent-policy/
I implore that you all read it before doing anything like the above.
Do take into account everything disccused in the original mail, but
importantly make your own decision.
I'm not suggesting it's in any way wrong (I haven't read the draft
myself yet, and haven't made a decision), but it *is* important in a
democracy such as this that every man reads all the evidence before
making their desicion.
Francis Whittle
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