Hi all,
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:44:49 +0100 Hannes Hauswedell hannes@fsfe.org wrote:
Would asking Leonard Rosenthol for comments on the Open Standard page draft be a problem in this regard?
hh> Yes I think so. I have included Georg in CC, so he can comment on hh> it. My impression was that part of the strategy could be /not/ hh> letting them know exactly what we know and/or what we want before hh> hand.
That is indeed a wise thing when you want to negotiate.
Otherwise the other party gets two rounds to obtain concession, which pushed you farther from your initial objective. :-)
hh> I am not into things that deep so I can't comment on it. But if it hh> is an issue, we should definitely mention it :)
Thanks to Jose (who sent private email) I have a bit more information about this now. We definitely want to see this clarified.
hh> I don't see how can Adobe can protect Free Software developers if hh> they are sued for patent infringement other than paying their hh> lawyers.
That one is indeed tricky, and most likely out of reach at least for this round of talks.
It's great to see pdfreaders.org having such an impact. I'd say we all have done a wonderful job on this ;-)
hh> Yep :)
Most definitely!
Congratulations to everyone!
Regards, Georg