On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:31:30AM +0200, Uwe Pross wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On 20 Aug 2003 at 20:10:36 +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
>
> > Is there any chance that the FVWM project participates in
> > this event? Note that the FVWM web site doesn't need to
> > be closed down completely. On
> > http://swpat.ffii.org/gruppe/demo/index.de.html there are
> > several examples on how it's possible to show ones
> > concerns without taking such drastic measures, but there's
> > no need to stick to the examples.
> >
> > Just as a quick reminder: Many trivial things are already
> > patented in the US such as tabbed palettes
> > (http://swpat.ffii.org/patente/
> > wirkungen/palette/index.en.html) which e.g. FVWMTabs is
> > infringing upon. I for one don't want to have the same
> > situation in Europe and fear that it will ultimately kill
> > the competitiveness of Free Software. So this protest is
> > likely to be our last chance to somewhat influence the
> > decision making process.
I fully support this and would like to see the name "fvwm" being
used in a good cause.
> If nobody minds I could make the web site to be closed
> completly (all pages will not work even direct links like
> www.fvwm.org/documentation/manpages), closed partialy (only
> the entry site will not work) or I could place a statement
> about software patents on each page for that day.
I'm for closing down the site completely (with a statement, of
course).
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Aug 21 2003 - 03:30:27 BST