On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Dan Eriksen wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:59:13 -0400 > Kristofer Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That said, as much of an impact could be had (and the visible crackpot > > behaviour significantly reduced) if the bloggers just paid some token > > membership due to an advocacy group that agreed with them and could > > claim to represent N members with a much more eloquent opinion. > > I agree, but do any of these groups exist? I am tempted to support > the FSF (as US law seems to affect us anyway), but it would be nice to > support someone that can more directly help (in Canada). I only send money to the FSF. I am also unaware of any Canadian organization that I could sign up for that "represents my interests". Money isn't currently the issue - actually getting past "lets claim to represent N members" to actually having N members and a mandate to represent them is quite hard. > Am I simply unaware of them? No, you are not alone. There is EFC (pretty dead) and other organizations, but are they active or actually represent your views? I've been suggested I should join CATA and other tech groups, but they so far represent primarily the opposing views. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Submission to Innovation Strategy | No2Violence in Politics http://www.flora.ca/innovation-2002.shtml | http://www.no-dot.ca/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
