DEVELOPERS perhaps, but what about execs of software companies raking in gazillions a year from software patents?
Also, while there may be no specific rule regarding POV displays outside of articles, I do think we should try to limit ourselves to things that will not be disputed by any Wikipedians. Thus, I will not advocate to put up a site notice with my views if you don't do the same thing for your views (although I don't like software patents either).
Mark
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:03:09 +0100, Hynek Hanke hanke@brailcom.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:04:16PM +0100, Paweł 'Ausir' Dembowski wrote:
Have you heard of [[Wikipedia:NPOV|NPOV]]?
N> How is NPOV applied on this issue? Saying that sofware patents are bad is a POV.
Nearly everything is POV then. According to a survey led by the European Comission itself, 98.5% of developers who participated think software patents are bad.
But I agree it's not appropriate to put the Thank you poland letter on Wikipedia, the reason being rather that Wikipedia shouldn't participate in political issues than (N)POV
With Regards, Hynek
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