On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues: > <snip> > Some of these efforts have elected to participate in an "internet strike" by > displaying banners and/or "going dark" on the 18th of January, 2012. > > I would strongly urge the Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) project of > the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to join in this solidarity and > demonstrate a commitment towards the unregulated and open exchange of ideas > that we expect on the internet. > > Towards that end, I propose we shutter the OODT website at > http://oodt.apache.org/ and replace every page accessible under that domain > with a singular white-text-on-black-background that conveys, without any > doubt, our commitment to an open, un-regulated, free-of-government control > internet that eschews the ideas of both SOPA and PIPA. > > I hope OODT will join in this protest. And, if it is at all possible, ALL of > apache.org will follow suit. The Internet is at a vital nexus point, and we > face an opportunity for change we dare not squander.
+1 from me. Phil
