[wellylug] Fighting Software patents in europe + WellyLUG

[Cesare D'Amico]

As a european, I think I will add one thing, then I'll shut up. Please 
reply to my private mail, if you want.

(I don't know if this was written yet, I haven't read all the thread 
since I'm a little behind the mails of this ml)

Alle 06:12, giovedì 15 aprile 2004, Jethro Carr ha scritto:
> The point of this mailing list and the lug is to discuss linux
> problems, questions, get together, and have a good time - NOT to
> argue about politics, and useless ideas like taking the website down.

What will you do in three years, if you won't be able to *use* and *have 
fun* with linux, because it is considered illegal? If you won't even be 
able to have problems with it?

I'm a PHP developer and linux sysadmin and I know little or nothing 
about Windows, so you'll understand that I'm concerned about software 
patents in my country. I plan to come and live in NZ one day in the 
future, so I'm concerned about sw patents also in YOUR country :)
I'm a pragmatic guy, I don't really like politics (you should see how 
politicians "work" here in Italy to understand my feelings about that 
matter), but I think everyone using open source software for solving 
its everyday problems should feel the same.

> What good is that? It's only going to annoy us, and the other
> people who want to find out about the lug.

You don't need to shut the site down. You don't even need to change 
completely the home page. You can add a simple, well-marked rectangle 
containing a brief presentation of the problem and a link to a more 
thorough explanation; all of that *if* you think that it would be 
useful, which is not necessarily the case. ("you" intended as 
"someone")

*But* I think that software patents are a problem for all of us linux 
users.

Regards, and please excuse me for the lengthy mail and for adding more 
noise to your mailing list (I'm serious here :)

Ciao
     ce

PS: btw, the so-called net-strike ended today (15th of April).

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