Re: EU Patent Lobbying Statement

["Tim Marshall" <tim-mel@missvalley.com>]

> One other thing to be done is: draft (in English first) a public letter of
> the Lojban organisation on the issue of the EU greenbook on community
> patents, propose the 3-4 measures, in short


     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