On Wednesday 05 Aug 2009 2:42:09 pm Nagarjuna G. wrote: > > 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.
I do not see them in fosscomm - apart from RedHat and Sun (both non-official) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
