David Clark wrote: > I signed the noooxml petition and received my confirmation. > > Over 4300 had signed by the time I did. > > Do these things really make a difference? Such efforts seem to help > in Hollywood where I notice that due to petitions and other hoopla > the TV program Jericho is coming back from the dead. > > > David Clark I don't think anyone can predict the influence of this petition but a year or so ago there was a move to relax the constraints on software patents in the EU. I signed a petition and also wrote to my MEP who was kind enough to answer. His opinion was the both letter writing and petitions did have an impact. In any event the European parliament voted down the software patent proposal by a massive majority. Remember if you don't do anything then you can't complain later. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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