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From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
To: Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>
Cc: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, Patent forum <patents@aful.org>, fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org, DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org, DMCA-Activists@gnu.org, fsl-discuss@alt.org
Subject: Re: [fsl-discuss] Re: [Patents] Re: IBM, Microsoft, BEA Snub W3C
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:03:36 -0400

Xavi Drudis Ferran scripsit:

> Protesting against those who have economical interest in destroying their
> market (by monopolising it) and no obligation to listen to protesters
> is wasting time compared with protesting to elected legislators and
> publicizing
> the issues.

The trouble is that we in the U.S. know all too well that our "elected"
representatives (about 98% of incumbents seeking re-election get it)
listen only to those who have money, i.e. those same would-be monopolists.
That's why we have our patent laws, the DCMA, the Mickey Mouse Act, etc. etc.

--
You escaped them by the will-death              John Cowan
and the Way of the Black Wheel.                 jcowan@reutershealth.com
I could not.  --Great-Souled Sam                http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

Re: [Patents] Re: IBM, Microsoft, BEA Snub W3C, (continued)

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