Better Graphic for the flyer

[Bernhard Kaindl <bernhard.kaindl@gmx.de>]

>
> We are still looking for a better graphic.  It should be a graphic that
> symbolically illustrates the problem of software patents, e.g. minefield,
> puzzle with missing pieces, highway with road toll booths, rusty lock on a
> math equation, I don't know what.  Preferably pointing to unwanted
> constellations rather than to bad politicians.

you mentioned some openoffice graphic from a photo. I think I've seen
it also somewere once, did you mean the last graphing on this pages
with the OpenOffice.org letters being handcuffed?

http://vrijschrift.org/swpat/art/

If we could use it, I think it would be best because OpenOffice
(or the previous name StarOffice) should be quite known even to
Windows users yet as a viable Alternative to Monopolist MS Word.

And this leads to excaly the main economic points which we need to show:
Strenghening Monopolies by handcuffing competitors is the worst thing
Goverments can do against itself, especially if they are dependent on
the Monopolist themselfes, because he can dictate the price then, even
to goverments.

And Patents are nothing else than Monopolies.

Bernhard

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hartmut Pilch" <phm@a2e.de>
> To: "Wiebe van der Worp" <wiebe@viaisn.org>
> Cc: "Simon Brouwer" <simon.oo.o@xs4all.nl>; <bxl@ffii.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bxl] flyer for europarl: NL
>
>
> > > A Dutch translation of the tex-flyer is made by Simon Brouwer of
> > > nl.openoffice.org. Thank you very much.
> >
> > It's on the web
> >
> > http://www.ffii.org/proj/kunst/swpat/pamflet/europarl03.nl.pdf
> > http://www.ffii.org/proj/kunst/swpat/pamflet/europarl03.nl.tex
> >
> > To get it on 1 page, I had to trim it by removing 2 sentences.
> >
> > The openoffice.org project had a great poster with a graphic that possibly
> > could be used for the flyer.
> >
> > The carricature's message is not clear to me, and rather than adding an
> > emotional but unclear message, I tend to prefer to preserve the factual
> > and unclear picture which is there now and let the text speak.
> >
> >
> >
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