Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

["Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>]

How much is a postcard and a stamp in the EU?

5,000 postcards at .20 currency units would cost 1,000.00.

There could be a checkbox saying, "send a card on my behalf."  We 
could farm the task out to people in respective countries who would 
volunteer to transcribe (by hand) a little note, perhaps buy various 
cards from appropriate locales in the appropriate countries, and send 
them off to appropriate public servants.

Seth

-----Original Message-----
From: "Alberto Tapias Herranz" <atapias@ya.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 03:11:23 +0100
Subject: Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

> I agree with you. People dont believe in electronic signatures,
> specially
> when the physical demostration in front of the parliament was about a
> hundred people. I think that it should be stablished a week to
> concentrate
> the postcard flow. People who is speccially involved could buy more
> than one
> postcard and stamp, so that support from people is again a signature.
> 
> I would really buy a pack of postcards and stamp. It´s cheaper than
> demostrating physically there!
> 
> You just then have to set a date, a collection o picture designs and
> texts.
> And the most important: the address!
> 
> Hope somebody feels like me.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcel Martin" <mm@ellipsa.net>
> To: <patents@aful.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:47 AM
> Subject: [Patents] 300939 people!
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just saw today that 300939 people signed the Eurolinux petition.
> >
> > What if people sent a postcard (Name, Occupation, Country and
> > Message [*]) to the European Council?
> > Maybe I am wrong but I think that a postcard could weigh more than
> > an electronic signature. In order to do so, one has to buy a card
> and
> > a stamp, to write the card and to send it. It requires more
> motivation
> > that simply clicking on a Web page button. And it might well be
> > perceived this way by the Council members.
> >
> > [*] Simply "No software patents" or, more elaborated,
> "Eolas/Microsoft
> > case = $500,000,000. Protect the Europ against software patents".
> >
> > mm
> > --
> > http://www.ellipsa.net/
> >
> >
>