Though I personally support the patent protest; and have been heavily donating bits, bandwidth,bytes and storage to the cause as a private citizen; I am not too eager to see the ASF jump into the political arena.
So count it as a -0 for me. As this is certainly not in one issue which in my opinion directly relates to US (the ASF) or to open source. Sure - _if_ patent offices in europe are as bad/careless as in the US and _if_ cost recovery is made harder and _if_ the originality clase is swept under the table and _if_ the courts turn the table so that proving prior art suddenly becomes expensive in the EU.. then it may have an adverse effect on open source.. But then again - that is a lot of 'if's. And one can even see ways for Open Source to protect itself using EU patents linked to its own prior art at very low cost - and using that outside the EU to protect itself. Lets save these loud ASF statement/actions things for issues which _directly_ affect the ASF work. Dw --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
