Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 10 February 2009 15:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF
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On Feb 10, 2009, at 15:46, Michael Richardson wrote:

>  The IETF should be *thrilled* that so many people care!

In a world with unlimited time, yes.  In the real world, polluting the  
discourse by hundreds of more or less unconsidered knee-jerk reactions  
just makes sure that *I* can't take part in it meaningfully, and that  
is probably true of most bandwidth-limited IETFers.

Of course people care about the damage done to society by software  
patents.  More so, many IETFers do.  Please read Noel's recent message  
about how much the cause is helped by a mail-bombing "campaign".

Gruesse, Carsten