Hi Stefan, Hi Mako, Hi List
James Heald wrote:
> Mary Harney has given a speech launching a brochure on
> Ireland's priorities for the Competitiveness council:
>
> http://dbs.corUntiUntitled
1tled1dis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CALLER=NHP_EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=EN_RCN_ID:21416
I'm reading through this document and making notes in preparation for
one task at hand, viz: [fsfe-ie] .v. Vapor European Software Patent
Legislation.
In the forward to this document Mary Harney writes:
"For the new Member States we wish to ease the way for successful
integration" p3 para 1
"European economic reform, as set out in the Lisbon Strategy, serves a
number of objectives. These include social inclusion ..." p3 para 4
As I read these fine words I remember similar ones from the Brazilian
government which I understand were delivered last month in Geneva at
WSIS [1] :
> That we support the initiative creating the 'Free Software Brazil Project'
> and the projects at state level as necessary intermediaries between the
> diverse actors in the Brazilian free software community: governments,
> universities, private initiatives, user groups, and free software developers.
>
> That free software is an integral part of the creation of a free, just,
> ethical, and inclusive society, in which people have the possibility of
> mutually helping one another in solidarity.
>
> That free software respects the need to preserve multilingualism and cultural
> and sexual identities in cyberspace.
>
> That the freedoms granted to the users of free software allow the possibility
> of them escaping from the simple role of consumers of technology to become
> active participants in a knowledge society.
>
> That the license policy of proprietary software is unsustainable for the
> economies of developing countries.
>
> That the model of free licenses represents an opportunity to reach an equality
> of rights in the technological field, shrinking the digital divide, and
> favouring users with fewer economic resources.
>
> That the development achieved by free software and the potential that it
> represents are a clear proof of its strategic function on the way to a
> knowledge and information society.
>
> That the training of people with free, just, ethical, and inclusive thought
> is fundamental for society, and free software is a great catalyst for such
> values. [2]
It seems to me that Mary should check out these folk and their ideas;
they could be of help in the wider task of social integration.
--
Adam
[1] World Summit of Information Society : For further details and
details of London feedback meeting 30-01-04
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-sheffield/2004-January/001143.html
[2] Part of an unnofical translation of "recommendation to Brazilian
WSIS delegates" by graham seaman (graham(a)seul.org).
http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/msg01565.html
Graham writes: "Please excuse the literalness of the translation - I
tried to stay very close to the original" - I am told that the official
translators used a heavy filter.
hi,
This is my first post,waiting for the perfect time, anyway.
ogg audio code is not patented.
The website is
http://www.vorbis.com/
quote from site:
> Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio
> encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open
> Source.
Niall,
> Received quite a lot of spam today mailed to fsfeurope2<at
> symbol>nedprod.com which I use on fsfe-ie(a)fsfeurope.org and
> discussion(a)fsfeurope.org. One of these mailing lists is displaying
> our email addresses publicly!
Do you perhaps mean s_fsfeurope2? From a quick search it's quite
likely that your address was harvested from the November archives,
when someone answered a message from you, quoting your email address
in the body of the response.
While Mailman's pipermail archive does obfuscate the email addresses
in the headers of an email, it doesn't generally do this for the body
of the mails because doing so would break possible GPG signatures.
Jonas
Great. How about we make it an open letter to Mary Harney, publish on website and distribute widely. I've been contacted by a journalist, would be handy for this. It should go the members of the competetiveness council, COREPER IP working group, Parliament, ENTEMP, etc. If anyone has up-to-date lists, please let me know. COREPER are discussing latest Council draft on Tues. It is bad: scope has been widened, patents are back in and criminal sanctions remain. The worst of all worlds. If anyone would like a copy, let me know.
According to the Irish presidency programme, there's a tbc conference on copyright in 21/22 June in Dublin organised by ENTEMP. Usually, the Commission organise a big copyright conference every two years in the presidency country, but I heard they weren't doing it anymore because it cost too much. High level, invite only, rightholder dominated. Last one was in Spain http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/news/index.htm. I'll try to find out more.
Teresa
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> I'm drafting a letter for her and her associates at the >moment. I've only just started, but I'll post what I >have mid-saturday. Given the buzzwordiness >of "competitiveness" at the moment, I'll highlight the >need for software to be interoperable for it to be >competitive.
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David O'Callaghan writes:
> > Todo :
> > * Get someone to draw the logo
>
> I'm having a go at the previous suggestion of a gnu playing a harp. It's
> based on this: http://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html
great.
I was thinking an easier starting image would be the typing gnu:
http://www.gnu.org/graphics/atypinggnu.html
rotate a little anti-clockwise and stick in a harp?
Here's the reason I'm not doing the logo:
http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/images/not-the-ifso-logo.png
It would be best if our logo was an original creation, modifiying an FSF
image might imply that we are an FSF/GNU project, but we can't be picky
and it can be updated some other time.
Anything you can do is the best offer we have :)
--
Ciaran O'Riordan - http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/
>From eucd(a)mikrolisten.de. Apologies for cross-posting.
A new chapter in the music industry's legal struggle against piracy began yesterday in Europe. Only this time, it is the consumers who are taking the music labels to court.
Belgian watchdog sues record biz over copy protection
By Jan Libbenga
Posted: 03/01/2004 at 12:59 GMT
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34695.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/2004/01/06/cx_al_0106copyprotect_print.html
Belgian consumer watchdog Test-Achats (Test Aankoop), known for its crusade against Nokia's "unsafe batteries", starts the new year with a fresh assault on the music industry. It is taking the music giants EMI,
Sony, BMG Music and Universal Music to court for installing anti-piracy systems on their audio CDs.
In a press release, Test-Achats says it has received lots of consumer complaints in recent months about CDs equipped with anti-piracy systems, in particular 'Laundry Service' by Shakira, '1 Giant Leap' by Faithless and Bjork's 'Greatest Hits'. Often, these CDs can't be read by PCs and car stereos, and prevent users from making legal private copies, according to Test-Achats.
Test-Achats is thought to be the first consumer watchdog to challenge the music industry in court over anti-piracy protection.
In 2001, a Californian woman filed a lawsuit against an independent record label for embedding technology in CDs that blocked people from listening to songs on a PC. The defendant settled the case by implementing a return policy. From then on, record companies began to include a warning that copy-protected CDs are not designed to work with DVD or CD ROM players.
In 2002 the US congressman Rick Boucher got in on the act, delivering trenchant criticism of moves by record labels to protect CDs against copying. He also argued that blocking consumers from copying their own CDs could violate US copyright law, but didn�t pursue the matter further.
Also that year, Philips, the custodian of the CD standard said said it was prepared to sue manufacturers if they failed to include clearly inform users that their products are copy-protected.
However, lately both Philips and Sony are pushing the Super Audio CD (SACD) format, which offers protection against both piracy and consumer copying.
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Received quite a lot of spam today mailed to fsfeurope2<at
symbol>nedprod.com which I use on fsfe-ie(a)fsfeurope.org and
discussion(a)fsfeurope.org. One of these mailing lists is displaying
our email addresses publicly!
Can whichever is doing this please ensure that spammers are no longer
able to harvest addresses?
Thanks,
Niall
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Folks, Because of this being mentioned in recent discussions, I visited http://www.ncbi.ie/
and fed back on what I saw, pointing out that I was an IFSO member & got the
following response.
<start>
Hi,
Thanks for the Feedback on the website. The correct figure of Blind and
Vision impaired people we have registered with us is 7163. As regards the
Technical Pages, I suppose the omission of any Linux related information is
down to me. At present the pages only contain the relevant information to
the products that we currently sell. We do have on of our Support Officers
who has installed a copy of Linux with built in screen reading software and
has begun testing it. I have asked him to write up a report on what he is
using and his experiences with it, I hope to be able to put this up soon.
Collyn Kenny
NCBI
<finish>
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As Adam says, maybe not a good idea to post bank account details to web. In my previous job, I got targetted by Nigerian fraudesters, they're quite clever in how they try to get money out of your account once they have the details. On the other hand, I haven't had a cheque book for ten years, I don't think banks in Europe even issue them anymore. Recently in the Netherlands, I paid 20Euro bank charges to raise a 25Euro cheque! So I'd prefer bank transfer, but let's discuss tonight how best to arrange it.
Teresa
Adam Moran <adam(a)diamat.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> http://ifso.info/membership.html says:
>
> > Membership fees can be paid in person to any committee member, or by cash transfer to our bank account in Ireland. Paper receipts are available for all in person transactions. Bank account details will be posted here Real Soon Now.
>
> 1. I'm not too sure if it's a good idea to post the bank account details
> on the site; I remember being advised against it some months ago by a
> bank ... but I don't often work on 'e-commerce' sites ?
>
> How about:
>
> "Please send cheques payable to 'Irish Free Software Organisation' to:"
>
> 2. Do you think it's a good idea to get a Post Office Box for this and
> general purposes ?
>
> --
> adam
>
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