RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-27 Thread Noel J. Bergman
-Original Message- Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote: Whatever text we adopted will need to be approved, anyhow, but do you want to add anything to the effect that the Apache Software Foundation develops software based upon Open Standards and promotes

Re: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Gianugo Rabellino wrote: Anyway, just in case the board gives the green light, attached is the (text corrected, thanks!) HTML page. It might need tweaks at the refresh meta and last link to adjust it to the correct index page. The img absolute link is on purpose, in case others want to apply

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Sander Striker
From: Gianugo Rabellino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:47 PM Andrew Savory wrote: http://petition.eurolinux.org. You will be redirected automatically to this site homepage in 60 seconds (or you can reach it directly by clicking a href=...here/a).

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Sander Striker
From: Sander Striker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:55 PM Hmmm. I was more thinking all or nothing. If the board approves, swap the main httpd.conf for a config that will serve only this page. We swap configs again when the protest is over (a day?). Then

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Whatever text we adopted will need to be approved, anyhow, but do you want to add anything to the effect that the Apache Software Foundation develops software based upon Open Standards and promotes inter-operability, both of which would be threatened by software patents, and therefore the ASF is

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Noel J. Bergman
http://cvs.apache.org/~gianugo/apache-protest.html Page Closed - Important Notice this site - this site's --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Noel J. Bergman wrote: Whatever text we adopted will need to be approved, anyhow, but do you want to add anything to the effect that the Apache Software Foundation develops software based upon Open Standards and promotes inter-operability, both of which would be threatened by software patents, and

RE: Draft proposal for EU patents protest

2003-08-26 Thread Steven Noels
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Sander Striker wrote: From: Sander Striker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:55 PM Hmmm. I was more thinking all or nothing. If the board approves, swap the main httpd.conf for a config that will serve only this page. We swap configs