Re: [Patents] 300939 people!

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

I actually replied to Hartmut in private without reading all the way 
through this, since this post echoed an earlier one.  But this one 
actually goes on a little further.

Hartmut, I know how you're trying to run things.  I respect that, far, 
far more than you know.

Seth

-----Original Message-----
From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:16:30 +0100 (CET)
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.
> 
> 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.
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