From phm@xxx.xxx Fri Jun 11 02:14:59 1999 X-Digest-Num: 164 Message-ID: <44114.164.978.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:14:59 +0200 (CEST) From: PILCH Hartmut It took me about an hour to translate the first paragraph > so it may take a while to do it all. Great, thank you very much. 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 - oppose patentability of non-industrial ideas in general and as a possible threat to the Lojban project in particular - reduce patent research costs by providing patent specs as open content of a high abstraction level. "publishing patent specs" today must mean "publishing at the highest accessibility/abstraction level" - right of EU citiziens to be informed in their language about what they are allowed to do and what not - possibly reduce translation costs by providing a Logical Language version, from which "Logician's Portuguese" etc may be generated - make automated patent research even more efficient by providing patent specs at a highest markup level, i.e. Logical Language. Lojban is a higher level SGML, as the parellelity between the two reference parsers shows. I could help drafting this. We could also create a webserver lojban.eurolinux.org, to which everybody has access. Remember that "linux" in "eurolinux" was merely chosen because it is the most popular and therefore most powerful symbol for "free informational infrastructure". The latter term, which is the real issue, means less than the penguin to many people. The members need not support Linux as a platform. We are integrating people from OS/2 and commercial multimedia manufacturers as well. -- Hartmut Pilch