2009/8/5 Nagarjuna G. <[email protected]>:
> 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.
A number of us in this list are not a part of FSF. However that is not
the point. The question is whether we discuss software patents issues
here or not. If people have objections -- Common Minimum program
etc.-- then we should not.
Building a network of the FOSS Community is important and we should
not jeopardise this if people have strong reservations that this issue
will split the community.
I agree with Nagajuna that building another group is duplicating the
work and also assuming a split on this issue. My sense is that people
on this list do not want to fork on this. NRC FOSS's position is for
them to decide, we can only decide for ourselves. Unless we feel that
this will keep NRC-foss out and it is important to get them in.
Prabir
>>
>
> 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
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