Re: PostgreSQL and Patents: no position against ?

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 21:58, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > > For an organization like PGDG that _isn't_ politically activist in
> > > > nature (and that arguably isn't clearly defined for legal purposes) to
> > > > steer clear of political activism doesn't seem particularly
> > > > schizophrenic to me...
> > >
> > > Yes, but it would be hard to argue that anyone in the Postgres project favors
> > > software patents.
> >
> > I am sure some of our new users _do_ favor software patents, perhaps
> > because they don't yet understand the problems they are causing.
> >
> > Do we want the PostgreSQL web site to be educating them?  If we do, we
> > have to educate, not put a banner up there, and if we don't want to
> > educate, we shouldn't put it up there.
> >
>
> Isn't the point of the banner to link to information where the user
> could learn about software patents?  Are you arguing that the banner
> shouldn't say "software patents bad" but just "learn about software
> patents" ?

I haven't seen the banner myself so I can't say, but I assumed it was
one of those "Patents" with a red line through it or something.

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