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Subject: Re: [Softwarepatents] [Patents] TODAY/URGENT: Stop IETF Enactment of Patented Standard for TLS

Am Thu, Feb 12, 2009 12:35:16AM +0100, Enrico Marocco schrieb:
> Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > The root of the problem is the IETF policy.
> > 
> > This is a good opportunity to show that IETF policy is corrupted by
> > the patent community.
> 
> Sure, if people think there's something wrong with the IETF, they are
> always welcome to take part in the discussion and fix it. But an email
> bombing is just an email bombing. What if all of the tens of thousands
> employees of the company I work for started sending emails to FFII's
> mailing lists arguing that s/w patents are good?

AFAIK nobody was saying to ask the 100.000 supporters of the FFII to send an email to IETF.
But if they do it, the difference is that people wants to express their independent opinion on the
issue, they don't get paid by the FFII.

-- 
Ivn F. Villanueva B.
