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Re: EU Patent Lobbying Statement



la tim. cusku di'e

> I am so new here I hesitate to even write this.
> Well to simply cut to my point without dragging on.
> It seems to me that a lojban community is a community that
> speaks or at this
> time at least supports lojban. That community is of diverse
> backgrounds
> (religion, ethnicity, philosophy, etc) that have little to do
> with the
> language itself. (except in how it may contribute to the
> understanding or
> clarification of differences between these backgrounds)
> My opinion is that you are asking a great deal. I don't
> know much
> about lobbying or about the EU greenbook, but it seems a bold
> step for a
> language group to push itself (however gently) into a political
> stand, even
> if it includes the promotion of itself. The issues you have
> before you are
> of course very important. And although I have not examined the
> issues that
> carefully it appears that you stand on the side that will
> promote progress.
> What I do believe, is that this shows the great need to
> have such a
> language as lojban.
> Hesitently, I throw my opinion to the wind as the dust it
> may be.
> Tim
>

I think Tim may have a point. While I agree with Pilch's stand,
I'm not sure that we should write a proposal as LLG. As it
happens, a lot of people in the Lojban community share similar
ideas on a variety of subjects, but we can't bundle these in with
Lojban, otherwise we could end up having a language with its own
built-in ideology ({zo'o} a bit like Esperanto). Perhaps the
best thing would be to set up something like "Lojban patents
working group" or whatever, rather than use LLG itself.

co'o mi'e robin.