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

[Enrico Marocco <enrico.marocco@telecomitalia.it>]

Ivan F. Villanueva B. wrote:
>>> 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.

Actually the email I replied to in the first place was an explicit call
for action, whose first sentence read like: "Urgent.  Send your note
TODAY and CONFIRM the automatic reply from IETF."

-- 
Ciao,
Enrico

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