Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Khudairi s...@apache.org Cc: ooo-dev@incubator ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ASF Marketing Marketing Publicity pr...@apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 23:11 Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner Sally, On 18 January 2012 22:11, Sally Khudairi s

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-24 Thread Sally Khudairi
From: Louis Suárez-Potts lo...@apache.org To: Sally Khudairi s...@apache.org Cc: ooo-dev@incubator ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ASF Marketing Marketing Publicity pr...@apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 23:11 Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner Sally

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-19 Thread Shane Curcuru
: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 11:05 Subject: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner All, Proposal: 1. Let's vote on supporting those who have protested the proposed US bills supposed to combat piracy but actually doing a lot more than that and none of it good. These two proposals: SOPA and PIPA

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
...@apache.org Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 11:05 Subject: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner All, Proposal: 1. Let's vote on supporting those who have protested the proposed US bills supposed to combat piracy but actually doing a lot more than that and none of it good

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-19 Thread Sally Khudairi
Subject: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner All, Proposal: 1. Let's vote on supporting those who have protested the proposed US bills supposed to combat piracy but actually doing a lot more than that and none of it good. These two proposals: SOPA and PIPA. Wikipedia has a fair account: http

18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
All, Proposal: 1. Let's vote on supporting those who have protested the proposed US bills supposed to combat piracy but actually doing a lot more than that and none of it good. These two proposals: SOPA and PIPA. Wikipedia has a fair account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Ross Gardler
The ASF will not say no. Individual projects can do what they want as long as it does not damage the foundation or the community. However, it is the decision of individual projects, so if you want all projects to do this then you have alot of mailing lists to work through. Ross On 18 January

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi, I must say that I do not support these awful proposed laws. I've signed petitions to that effect as an individual. While I support the idea of indicating our support. I think that it is a little late. If this proposal had come in a couple of days ago ... Regards, Dave On Jan 18, 2012, at

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Donald Whytock
This showed up on Yahoo today... http://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-editors-sites-blackout-120914984.html Apparently some feel that Wikipedia shouldn't take any political stands at all...that it sets a bad precedent and potentially damages its reputation. Me, I think Wikipedia isn't taking a

RE: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 09:56 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner This showed up on Yahoo today... http://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-editors-sites-blackout-120914984.html Apparently some feel that Wikipedia shouldn't take any

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner This showed up on Yahoo today... http://news.yahoo.com/wikipedia-editors-sites-blackout-120914984.html Apparently some feel that Wikipedia shouldn't take any political stands at all...that it sets a bad precedent and potentially damages its reputation.  Me, I think

RE: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
11:39 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner Including the list this time. Watch those reply-tos, Dennis...:) On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Don, What's your understanding of the connection

RE: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, 2012 12:42 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner I agree that the EFF tends to go hyperbolic. The only specific case mentioned is the anti-circumvention aspect of the DMCA. But providing encryption software is not a way to circumvent DRM

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Nancy K
  From: Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:15 AM Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner Hi, I must say that I do not support these awful proposed laws. I've signed petitions to that effect as an individual

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Nancy K
@incubator.apache.org ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:20 PM Subject: Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner I found this interesting - as I too am trying to weed out the hype. http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/08/new-anti-piracy-legislation-would-break

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
-deputizing of vigilante enforcers is a terrible notion.]  - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 12:42 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner I agree

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Danese Cooper
While it might have been appropriate for ASF projects such as AOO to join today's SOPA/PIPA protest, I agree that it's too late to coordinate now. The Wikipedia community has been working towards their protest action for more than a week, including a town hall meeting and other

Re: 18 Jan 2012: SOPA and PIPA Protest Banner

2012-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Of course. The travail of being new here: I kept waiting. Silly me: open source is about doing it yourself, in community, not about watching others do it for you. That's TV. louis On 18 January 2012 17:53, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: While it might have been appropriate for ASF