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 2BCF8D1E172 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:13 -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 33024-03 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF1AD1E146 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:11 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E86513A77C; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC3C3A669; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:18 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:05:18 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: scrappy@ganymede.hub.org To: Robert Treat Cc: Dave Page , jclift@digitaldistribution.com, PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List Subject: Re: [webmaster] online demonstration against EU Software In-Reply-To: <200404111704.25575.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <20040411180348.H76255@ganymede.hub.org> References: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889FA35@mail.vale-housing.co.uk> <200404111704.25575.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200404/68 X-Sequence-Number: 4172 On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Robert Treat wrote: > 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... Just curious here, but aren't software patents already an issue in the US? I know I've been seeing several going around, or, at least, I believe I have ... if so, how does this extenting to the EU make any difference? Myself, I agree with Robert here about being in the middle of things, but only if I'm correct in that this is already a problem in the US that isn't going to make anything worse/better by the EU having/not having it ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664