Josh Berkus wrote:
> Chris,
>
> > For an organization like PGDG that _isn't_ politically activist in
> > nature (and that arguably isn't clearly defined for legal purposes) to
> > steer clear of political activism doesn't seem particularly
> > schizophrenic to me...
>
> Yes, but it would be hard to argue that anyone in the Postgres project favors
> software patents.
I am sure some of our new users _do_ favor software patents, perhaps
because they don't yet understand the problems they are causing.
Do we want the PostgreSQL web site to be educating them? If we do, we
have to educate, not put a banner up there, and if we don't want to
educate, we shouldn't put it up there.
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