Actually, organizing is chiefly preaching to the converted: it's a matter of finding those who are looking for what you're saying.
Seth
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Clarke ian@locut.us Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:57:37 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fsfe-ie] Swpat: possible players
James Heald wrote:
I've been looking through websites, trying to identify more
potential
players.
One thing which is very important to think about is that any
contacts
with the powers-that-be will be have far more impact if they can be firmly established as a joint Free Software/SME initiative, rather
than
just "free-love, open-standard, freeware fanatics" as one UK
lawyer
tried to marginalise Open Sourcers.
Absolutely, one of the greatest dangers of highlighting the threat software patents are to free software is that it obscures the fact that they are just as great a threat to more conventional revenue generating, voter employing commercial software companies.
Framing the argument in ethical terms is only valuable when preaching to the converted, although I suspect I am preaching to the converted in pointing that out :-)
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