Re: [Patents] Openforumeurope.org clarifies swpat position

[Xavi Drudis Ferran <xdrudis@tinet.org>]

El Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Hartmut Pilch deia:
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Carsten Svaneborg wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > OpenForum Europe's position is that a lack of clarity about the intent
> > and purpose of software patents would be potentially even more damaging
> > to the interests of European software developers. Our focus is to ensure
> 
> This sounds as if Carsten Svaneborg was speaking for "OpenForum Europe".
> Can't be true.
> What's going on here?
> 

Carsten can speak for himself, but from all appareances what is going on 
here is quotation. It is common practice when you find a piece of news
on topic and interesting to send the URL to a list, with some indication 
of what it is about. Extracting a relevant paragraph is a quick way to 
hint about the news you send. This is not usually construed as implying 
any support for the text you quote, just some appreciation of that it is 
important information to be known by the recipients.

Note that the paragraph he sent is literally part of the page he pointed to
(not so the "Hi!")

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Xavi Drudis Ferran
xdrudis@tinet.org