I agree. This article is worth reading by the way: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Allen Lowe On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Jaap Broekhuizen <[email protected]> wrote: > If someone could make a mockup of such a page, then i don't think the web > team would have any trouble creating a temporary static html page of that... > 7 days should be very doable! So only thing is that we have to agree whether > or not we want to do this... > > I totally agree with doing this! > > Jaap > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Daniel Fore <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hey Guys, >> >> I guess Reddit is going to do a blackout on the 18th where the whole sight >> will be replaced with a single page describing what's wrong with SOPA and >> how you can contact Congress and fight it. >> >> I think we (even though we're small) could make a few waves by >> participating in this blackout and doing something similar. >> >> Best Regards, >> Daniel Foré >> >> www.elementaryos.org >> >> On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Daniel Foré <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I hardly think we wouldn't be affected by it. We use Facebook, Google >> > (plus, docs, search, mail, etc), Twitter, YouTube, etc to reach our users >> > and they are all affected. >> > >> > Best Regards, >> > Daniel Foré >> > >> > www.elementaryos.org >> > >> > On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Сергей <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> I can't see SOPA/PIPA directly affecting elementary. We hardly have >> >> any user-posted content on the website, and the one we have tends to >> >> be freely licensed. We do rely on external services like imagebin, >> >> pastebin, etc, but that's not vital and we could probably host >> >> something similar ourselves. Fortunately, SOPA/PIPA don't seem to >> >> allow boundless patent abuse [yet], so Apple and Microsoft's puppet >> >> consorciums won't be able to instantly shut us down either, the best >> >> thing they can do is not mentioning us (like they do with WINE). >> >> So I'd rather not tie it into elementary and instead present it as >> >> being out of our scope and not affecting us directly, but crippling >> >> the overall UX. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> shnatsel >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> >> Post to : [email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
