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software patent protest?

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software patent protest? Branko Collin 19 Apr 14:57
  software patent protest? Michael Schumacher 19 Apr 14:48
  software patent protest? Henrik Brix Andersen 19 Apr 14:48
   software patent protest? Nathan Carl Summers 19 Apr 22:25
  software patent protest? Simon Budig 19 Apr 14:49
  software patent protest? Carol Spears 19 Apr 15:49
   software patent protest? Chris Sherlock 20 Apr 10:08
Michael Schumacher
2004-04-19 14:48:32 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

Branko Collin wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

It has been discussed on gimp-web, see the thread "Re: [Gimp-web] [Fwd: Netstrike against swpats]" (Msg-Id: ).

www.gimp.org could be returned to normal now, though.

HTH, Michael

Henrik Brix Andersen
2004-04-19 14:48:43 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:57, Branko Collin wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

This was discussed on the gimp-web mailing list.

Sincerely, Brix

Simon Budig
2004-04-19 14:49:37 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

Branko Collin (collin@xs4all.nl) wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

It has been discussed on the gimp-web mailinglist. and the following thread.

Bye, Simon

Branko Collin
2004-04-19 14:57:39 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

Carol Spears
2004-04-19 15:49:06 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

i am also wondering who comprises the people who can just make these decisions.

i suggested for a very long time that we run the apache module that disallows micro$oft software (or similarly aliased software) for several months.

some politics are fine, others arent?

i did not run the web site like that.

carol

Nathan Carl Summers
2004-04-19 22:25:31 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:57, Branko Collin wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

This was discussed on the gimp-web mailing list.

It should also be noted that last time we did this it was discussed on gimp-developer as well.

Rockwalrus

Chris Sherlock
2004-04-20 10:08:07 UTC (about 21 years ago)

software patent protest?

Carol Spears wrote:

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:57:39PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:

I noticed that has gone 'black', in order to protest European software patents. A noble cause, for sure, but should this not have been announced at least, perhaps even debated? Or did my trigger-happy, spam-seeking delete-finger erase that message accidentally?

i am also wondering who comprises the people who can just make these decisions.

i suggested for a very long time that we run the apache module that disallows micro$oft software (or similarly aliased software) for several months.

some politics are fine, others arent?

i did not run the web site like that.

carol

So much for choice and the perils of living in a monoculture!

I, for one, am glad that this hasn't been done. And I don't even use Windows (except at work where I have no choice). Mozilla and the rest don't cut it cause for some reason they can't punch through our proxies, and I use gimp.org all the time.

Carol, think about it. What do you think would happen if Microsoft suddenly did the same thing to msdn.microsoft.com? I don't think the Samba or WINE developers would be too happy about this and there would be houls of protest from the Open Source community.

Not a cool suggestion.

Chris