X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3328CD1CCAC for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:58:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29997-05 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:57:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (unknown [68.230.240.31]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E462D1B9EB for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:57:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (really [24.250.206.88]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040411205747.YYND13358.lakermmtao08.cox.net@[192.168.0.13]>; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:57:47 -0400 From: Robert Treat To: "Dave Page" , Subject: Re: [webmaster] online demonstration against EU Software Patents Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:04:25 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: "PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List" References: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889FA35@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889FA35@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404111704.25575.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200404/67 X-Sequence-Number: 4171 On Saturday 10 April 2004 15:20, Dave Page wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Justin Clift [mailto:justin@postgresql.org] > > > > Hi Dave, > > > > Would it be ok for us to do something more prominent? > > Preferably copy-n-paste the KDE page's warning to the top of > > the PG homepage, just above the News and Events. > > > > Ensuring patent coverage isn't widened is in the direct > > interests of PostgreSQL. > > Hi Justin, > > Agreed - what do the rest of the web group think; anyone got any better > wording? Any objections? > Honestly? I'd be hesitant to put the project into the middle of any political discussion. Someone thinking about using postgresql for business might see the banners and decide they dont want to be involved with us at all... I'd probably debate it further if I was actually for software patents... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL