Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> 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.

Remember: there is no "we" on patents at aful org.

Calls on "we" to act in some way are offtopic here.  Calls on some far 
away people who might fulfill your wishes even more.

If you want to get things moving, do something.  There are lots of
instructions, projects and plans on the ffii sites.  I am still waiting 
for you to supply me with list of addresses for a letter-campaign which 
you said you wanted to collect.

There's a lot to do in fact.  But it's more something for the bxl mailing 
list (subscribable through the aktiv.ffii.org system) and the
        
        http://plone.ffii.org/

system for collaborative planning of events and promotional material.

As said, I see calls on other people to act and fulfill one's wishes as
something close to trolling, especially on a public list.  If you want 
your wishes to be fulfilled by a collective, first do something to move 
the work of the collective one or two steps ahead in the direction you 
want it to move.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
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