Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

["Alberto Tapias Herranz" <atapias@ya.com>]

I should be around 1euro for the postcard and 0.30 for the stamp. Its my
guess, dont know for sure. But they may be printed in thick paper at home..
with common images from the web.

The slogan under "..against SW Patents" could be:
"Dont you care for european freedom?"
or "Software is in DANGER and its my job "
or "IT is the future, keep it available"
or "XXI-Century IT holocaust"
or "-Software was once free. -Really?"
or "SOFTWARE concept is TOO broad, beware your decisions."
or "Please avoid Legal Circus"
or "Please protect me for trespassing public knowledge"
or ... whatever




----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
To: <atapias@ya.com>; <mm@ellipsa.net>; <patents@aful.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Patents] 300939 people!


>
> 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/
> > >
> > >
> >
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