Re: Fight against software aptents: did you register?
From: GP (gilpel_at_inverse.nretla.org)
Date: 09/12/04
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:05:29 -0400
Paul Lutus wrote:
> GP wrote:
>
>
>>Because the U.S. patent office issues around 100,000 software patents each
>>year, Richard Stallman compares programming as a walk through a mine
>>field:
>>
>>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/09/1612239
>>
>>Klaus Knopper, author of Knoppix is also worried about the situation:
>>
>>http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
>>
>>Did you register against this scam?
>>
>>http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/aktiv?f=cons46&l=en
>
>
> This is the sleaziest way to collect e-mail addresses I have personally ever
> seen.
I don't believe ffii.org is in that kind of business.
> The form cannot possibly lead to a legally meaningful petition
A petition is never legally meaningful.
> aginst
> software patents (because e-mail addresses are not voters),
I believe they used to ask more details but maybe few people registered.
GP
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