On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
They got loads of "Say NO to software patents", which McCarthy countered by saying that her proposal didn't create software patents. What the MEPs were asking for was a education about what exactly was bad about the directive. This sort of information can only come from a small number of informed people (preferably with peer review).
Somewhat coincedentally I am working on a tool, a website, designed to facilitate collaborative authoring of documents (email/webpage/whatever) where users get to vote on each modification before it is applied to the document, and where moderations conflict with each-other users can vote for which they like most.
It is more-or-less working on my computer, I just have to move it to a public server. As soon as I do I will email here with the URL (it will be http://3D17.org/) and you can all help me to beta-test it ;-)
Ian.