From phm@A2E.DE Thu Dec 06 09:54:56 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phm@a2e.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 6 Dec 2001 17:54:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 94086 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 17:54:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Dec 2001 17:54:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bartu.bos.a2e.de) (62.154.243.66) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 17:54:55 -0000 Received: from querty.oas.a2e.de (querty.oas.a2e.de [10.0.0.125]) by bartu.bos.a2e.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id TAA10656; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:01:47 +0100 Received: from localhost by querty.oas.a2e.de via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:59:38 +0100 (CET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 2001-Jan-13) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 18:59:37 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: To: "Robert J. Chassell" Cc: , , , Subject: Re: [lojban] eurolinux proposing lojban for community patent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: PILCH Hartmut X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810613 > In the US, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization is permitted to advocate > and lobby for *general* political issues, such as a ban on software > patents, or the use of Lojban as a patent-description language, but > not for a *specific* numbered bill. The concerned statement http://www.eurolinux.org/news/cpat01B/ is imho as general as a any statement against software patents. It proposes only broad principles of subsidiarity, citizens' interest vs patentee interest, and could even, after a few simple substitutions, be directly used to address the WIPO's upcoming patent treaty proposal (http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/wipo-splt00/). -- Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/ Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ 95000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/