Re: Previous consensus on not changing patent policy (Re: References to Redphone's "patent")

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John Levine wrote:
> > But are the 1,000 or so emails in recent days from the FSF campaign
> > not a loud enough hum to recognize that our IPR policy is out of
> > tune?
> >     
>
> Are you really saying that all it takes is a mob motivated by an
> misleading screed to make the IETF change direction?
>   
Yes  - exactly that.
> >From the sample of the FSF letters I read, many of the people writing
> didn't know the difference between Redphone and Red Hat, and if as
> many as two of them had even looked at the draft or IPR disclosure in
> question, it'd be a lot.
>
> The FSF's absolutist position on patents was set in stone 20 years
> ago.  I don't see why we should be impressed if they occasionally
> throw a handful of pebbles at us.
>
> R's,
> John
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