Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

["Roberto Micarelli" <mi.ro@iol.it>]

Very little time to follow you people, unfortunately .-(
But happy to follow any initiative like this! When you'll have fixed the 
correct way to di it, please post a new thread, simple and clear, on the ml.  
With instructions (a sample model, address, ...)

--
Roberto

>
> I'm thinking a pack of postcards would be cheaper.
>
> Also I'm thinking instead of slogans on the face, just local country
> landmarks, like tourists get.  Then handwritten, little short notes.
>
> Would be more personalized.
>
> Seth
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Alberto Tapias Herranz" <atapias@ya.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:13:31 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Patents] 300939 people!
>
> > 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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