Gerhard Poul writes:
- Create the domaine nosoftwarepatents.org
I think you have your reasons but I think it would be much better to register a domain name that is not negative and to inform people on this site about the possibility of negative impact instead of creating a insiders-only page that sounds negative.
Thanks for pointing this. I guess that's why freepatents.org exists ;-) My idea was to create a domain name that is not bound to Free Software and arrange it to display/mirror the petition.eurolinux.org content.
Now I realize I'm new in this and there was probably a lot of discussions on this subject. From what I heard there was apparently a consensus on the fact that having a domain name that is not bound to Free Software would be beneficial. I'm just proposing to create this domain name and do whatever is necessary to display/mirror the petition.eurolinux.org data. I'll be content to use whatever domain name was decided.
Anyway, buying domain names is cheap and many can point to the same location. What will truly require work is to display the petition.eurolinux.org data on it.
Cheers,
My idea was to create a domain name that is not bound to Free Software and arrange it to display/mirror the petition.eurolinux.org content.
We already have
noepatents.org = petition.eurolinux.org programming-freedom.org pro-innovation.org swpat.ffii.org swpat.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de softwarepatente.net
There is a lot of work to do on several of these, and much of it can be done in a team using Zope. We really badly need some help from someone on petition.eurolinux.org. There's a lot of work to do.
I'd also advise you to look around the above sites and take part in the mailing list
patents@aful.org http://aful.org/pipermail/patents/
I don't find that domain names are really all that useful these days.
-- Hartmut Pilch Federation for a Free Information Infrastructure http://www.ffii.org/ Protecting innovation against the patent system http://swpat.ffii.org/ For a software patent free Europe PLEASE SIGN http://petition.eurolinux.org/