Re: [Patents] Better Graphic for the flyer

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> 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/

Probably.

It's very good, but still I found that it is not usable when your readers
are not already emotionally involved.  MEPs usually do not care much about
software, even about MS Office bugs or formats upgrade problems.

The flyer is supposed to provide an introduction to something which many
want to spend a few minutes to understand, if they get a nice introductory
text which doesn't first stir up emotions and anxieties that make clear
thinking difficult.

A picture of a maze or puzzle in which some pieces are missing would be
good.

So far the closest which I have is still the drawing from the virus trap
patent (which is mentioned in the text).  It shows how a
"computer-implemented invention" is constructed from a simple logical
arrangement of known general-purpose computing equipment.  The data trap
idea can also be discerned fairly well by looking at it.

The french version is also there, thanks to Odile (any errors probably
due to my modifications):

        http://www.ffii.org/proj/kunst/swpat/pamflet/europarl03.fr.pdf
        http://www.ffii.org/proj/kunst/swpat/pamflet/europarl03.fr.tex

The other versions have undergone some typesetting improvement.  The dutch
version has the complete text.

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