Re: Stormy's update: Week of July 13th

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Alan Cox<alan lxorguk ukuu org uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:41:36 -0400
> Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
>
>>     Created some Amazon affiliate accounts in US, UK, Canada and Germany so tha=
>>     t
>>     Jaap can set up stores and a Firefox widget that will enable people to
>>     direct Amazon referral fees for their purchase to GNOME.
>>
>> It is not a good thing for the GNOME Foundation to support Amazon in
>> this way.  Amazon is one of the main perpetrators of DRM
>> (see http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/orwell-2009-dystopia).
>
> And stupid patents

If we stopped working with filers of stupid patents, we'd have to get
rid of pretty much all of the commercial members of the advisory
board. And those are people we actually work actively with, not just
mooch off of for associate revenue...

Luis