[Wikipedia-l] Thank you, Poland!

[Mark Williamson]

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 at 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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