On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Aug 2009 12:53:39 pm jtd wrote: >> On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Guru गुरु wrote: >> > Dear Prabir >> > >> > It is clear that software patenting will have huge adverse impact on >> > free software. hence FOSSCOMM cannot ignore it. I am not able to >> > understand why FOSSCOMM should not engage with this issue? >> >> I dont remember any decision against engaging on this issue. > > originally the idea was of a broad united front on a narrow common minimum > programme. That has not happened. The members of this group are basically in > agreement with FSF policies. There has been no broadening of membership > outside the FSF sphere apart from a couple of NGOs, so you might as well drop > the idea of a widely spread movement and go along with the FSF. As for the > NGOs, I fail to understand how they are propagating open standards etc when > they cannot even be bothered to study and adopt common foss mailing list > practices. I anyway oppose all patents, and will support, NRC-FOSS will not. >
the movement against software patents is not only an agenda of FSFs. Most developer communities who do not work for FSFs are also part of this campaign. RedHat, KDE, Gnome, Debian, Apache, W3C, and several other FOSS projects have openly supported the campaign by sporting "notosoftware patents' banner on their project sites. Nagarjuna _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
