Felix E. Klee wrote: > I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and know > that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software licenses > (if not visit http://tinyurl.com/k64f).
No need to encrypt and hide URLs or did I miss something important? > While planning this event we came up with the idea of a parallel > "online protest" in the form of a "simulation of the effects of software > patents on free software": We want operators of servers running/serving > free software to shut down their site (or only offer access to it > through some kind of backdoor) and display a statement concerning > software patents instead. You can see an example on the FFII web site at > http://www.ffii.org. We would like to see this statement to appear on as > many web servers as possible (or "all over the web") on 27th August, the > day of the event. > > BTW, in *my personal opinion* the whole thing would have much more of an > impact if sites were shut down for a day and no backdoor is offered. > > Are there any chances that the Debian project participates in this > "online protest"? About zero. > How can I reach people responsible for the web site? That's written on about *every* web page. Check the *last* link on any of them. Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the unasked one.
