[wellylug] Fighting Software patents in europe + WellyLUG

[Richard]

> > Are we going to take down our website in protest?
> >
> 
> Why? That kind of 'protest' seems completely pointless to me.
> 
> All id does is piss off people who legitamately want access to a website,
> it does nothing to thelp 'the cause' (whatever it might be).
> 
> To me things like this are pute politics and should not be fanned by user
> groups and the like.

I'd do it if it were something interesting, but it's not, it's just "shut down
the website". It's a little sad that all people can do is take real-world
concepts and try and apply them to the 'net like that. Should we all hop into
Battlefield Vietnam and lay or virtual avatars down in front of virtual tanks?
'cos I know exactly what the kids on Xtra FF 2 would do about that, and its a 20
second respawn time..:)

Shutting things down doesn't get positive attention, that just gets pissed off
users. They should have done a mass google-bombing of the word "patent" or
something. Far more interesting and might even have got media attention.

-- 
Richard Clark,
Analysis and Design,
Red Spider (http://redspider.co.nz/)
(+64) 021 478 219