Re: [Patents] Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Re: Infoworld: EU headed for limited software patent law

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> > This is clearly an orchestrated propaganda campaign.  ...
> >   evidently, some journalists are also in the
> > boat.  Others may ride it due to laziness, but Meller definitely not.
> >
> > By directly informing the other journalists and documenting this on the
> > web, we may be able to build some kind of check on corruption.
> >
>
> I *really* don't think that trying to victimise a journalist on the
> basis of two articles is a useful way to go.
>
> If you write offensive emails to him, you can't be surprised if he calls
> you an "extremist".
>
> You *have* to be polite to these people, regret how *unfortunate* it is
> that they *seem* to have made a mistake -- even if to write it you have
> to grit your teeth so hard that the enamel chips.

I think Meller can't act any worse than he is already acting, and he won't
be moved by whatever I say, be it charming or nasty.

Btw I took him out of cc for precisely that reason.  I find it not
useful to talk to him at all.  If he had stayed in cc, I would have talked
more politely, but since communication with him is provenly meaningless,
why spend a lot of time trying to be diplomatic (and thereby clouding the
message that others in this forum get)?