David Sugar on *ASTOUNDING* Statement by Peruvian Congressman

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Yes, David.  That would be great!

Below your message, I've posted two comments from the
Patent@aful list, from Nick Fleming and Alexandre Courbot,
who calls the letter "the perfect anti-FUD."

Seth Johnson

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:11:59 +0000
From: "David Sugar" <dyfet@ostel.com>

I am actually very familiar with this, and I would be happy
to explain some of the background about what is going on in
Peru and other Latin American countries and free software
when I return to the states tomorrow.  I may be visiting
peru to speak before their parliment in early July.

David


-------- Original Message --------
From: "Nick Fleming" <Nick@bigfatpanda.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 13:59:48 +0100
To: <patents@aful.org>

My favorite bit :

"To guarantee the permanence of public data, it is necessary
that the usability and maintenance of the software does not
depend on the goodwill of the suppliers, or on the monopoly
conditions imposed by them. For this reason the State needs
systems the development of which can be guaranteed due to
the availability of the source code. "

An amazing letter - I'm having trouble believing its genuine
- seems too good to be true. No way can a congressman  be so
well informed about software development surely ?


-------- Original Message --------
Date: 05 May 2002 16:36:22 +0200
From: Alexandre Courbot <alexandrecourbot@linuxgames.com>
To: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>

Outstanding, right. This document is a perfect anti-fud. But
I find the URL weird: the IP adress is the one of Google,
and when trying to directly access
www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html, I get redirected to the Google
cache page. Can we be SURE this isn't fake? (it's just too
good to be true... :))

Well, anyway - I really enjoyed reading this doc. At least,
once we lost all our freedoms here in Europe and in the US,
we could ask for Peruvian nationality.