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".
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