Re: FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-20 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:54:12PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:38:16PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote: I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and know that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software licenses(if not visit

Re: FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:54:12PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: Please don't do that. It means people can't tell where a link really points, to decide whether or not to spend the time loading it, without loading it. In my case, at least, that means I never load it. It's only an annoyance,

Re: FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Felix E. Klee wrote: I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and know that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software licenses (if not visit http://tinyurl.com/k64f). No need to encrypt and hide URLs or did I miss something important? While planning this

Re: FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-18 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:40:10 +0200 Martin Schulze wrote: Felix E. Klee wrote: I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and know that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software licenses(if not visit http://tinyurl.com/k64f). No need to encrypt and hide

Re: FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-18 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 21:13:38 +0200 Felix E. Klee wrote: You can see an example on the FFII web site at http://www.ffii.org. There is a special page set up now with more examples: http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo Felix -- To contact me in private don't reply but send mail to felix DOT

FFII-online-protest against patents

2003-08-16 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and know that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software licenses (if not visit http://tinyurl.com/k64f). On September 1 the European parliament will vote on a directive that legalizes software patents in Europe. If