From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-19 04:32:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? Date: 19 Aug 2003 04:32:29 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ad0dd8a.0308190332.6cd995e@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.111.211.178 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1061292750 2374 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2003 11:32:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 2003 11:32:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41710 Date: 2003-08-19T11:32:30+00:00 List-Id: Hello, > And no one pays any attention to the FSF in Brussels or anywhere else > outside of the Open Source community. Their all or nothing fanaticism > makes it easy to dismiss them out of hand. I have been to Brussels with FFI. Believe me, we were not a group of radicals. We were professors, lawyers, CEOs (incl. Robert Dewar of ACT), people from the US FTC, people from ISO, people personally hurt by patent lawyers. Indeed nobody (McArthy) gave a damn. It was especially drastic for me, because remember the government telling me that 2+2=5 and there it was happening again in the capital of EU, which we were about to join. Regards, Wojtek