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

["Ivan F. Villanueva B." <ivan@ffii.org>]

Am Thu, Feb 12, 2009 06:03:05PM +0100, Enrico Marocco schrieb:
> 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."

I understood it as 'it would be nice if the FFII could comment on it (maybe 
sending *1* email
today)'

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