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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/LPF
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/LPF |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:19:05 -0500 |
Index: emacs/etc/LPF
diff -c emacs/etc/LPF:1.2 emacs/etc/LPF:1.3
*** emacs/etc/LPF:1.2 Tue Feb 4 09:30:40 2003
--- emacs/etc/LPF Fri Apr 4 16:19:05 2003
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hearings on software patents. We welcome suggestions for other
activities, as well as help in carrying them out.
- Membership dues in the League are $42 per year for programmers,
- managers and professionals; $10.50 for students; $21 for others.
- Please give more if you can. The League's funds will be used for
- filing briefs; for printing handouts, buttons and signs; whatever will
- persuade the courts, the legislators, and the people. You may not get
- anything personally for your dues--except for the freedom to write
- programs. The League is a non-profit corporation, but not considered
- a tax-exempt charity. However, for those self-employed in software,
- the dues can be a business expense.
! The League needs both activist members and members who only pay their
! dues. We also greatly need additional corporate members; contact us
! for information.
- If you have any questions, please write to the League, phone
- +1 617 621 7084, or send Internet mail to address@hidden
-
- Chris Hofstader, President
- Dean Anderson, Secretary
- Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer
-
- Chris Hofstader can be reached at (617) 492-0023; FAX (617) 497-1632.
- To join, please send a check and the following information to:
-
- League for Programming Freedom
- 1 Kendall Square #143
- P.O.Box 9171
- Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
-
- (Outside the US, please send a check in US dollars on a bank
- having a US correspondent bank, to save us check cashing fees.)
-
- Your name:
-
-
- The address for League mailings, a few each year; please indicate
- whether it is your home address or your work address:
-
-
-
- The company you work for, and your position:
-
-
- Your phone numbers (home, work or both):
-
-
- Your email address, so we can contact you for demonstrations or for
- writing letters. (If you don't want us to contact you for these
- things, please say so, but please give us your email address anyway
- so we can save paper and postage by sending you the newsletter by email.)
-
-
- Is there anything about you which would enable your endorsement of the
- LPF to impress the public? For example, if you are or have been a
- professor or an executive, or have written software that has a good
- reputation, please tell us.
-
-
-
- Would you like to help with LPF activities?
-
-
-
-
- The corporate charter of the League for Programming Freedom states:
-
- The purpose of the corporation is to engage in the following
- activities:
-
- 1. To determine the existence of, and warn the public about
- restrictions and monopolies on classes of computer programs where such
- monopolies prevent or restrict the right to develop certain types of
- computer programs.
-
- 2. To develop countermeasures and initiatives, in the public interest,
- effective to block or otherwise prevent or restrain such monopolistic
- activities including education, research, publications, public
- assembly, legislative testimony, and intervention in court proceedings
- involving public interest issues (as a friend of the court).
-
- 3. To engage in any business or other activity in service of and
- related to the foregoing paragraphs that lawfully may be carried on
- by a corporation organized under Chapter 180 of the Massachusetts
- General Laws.
-
- The officers and directors of the League will be elected annually by
- the members.
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hearings on software patents. We welcome suggestions for other
activities, as well as help in carrying them out.
! (Added 2003) The League for Programming Freedom is inactive nowadays,
! though its web site www.programming-freedom.org is still maintained.
! It would be very useful to find a person who could take the initiative
! to get the LPF operating again. It will be a substantial job,
! requiring persistence and working with a lawyer. If you want to do
! it, please write to address@hidden