[kde-usa] Helping the Board with their NPO decision

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Fri May 11 14:57:12 UTC 2012


On 5/10/2012 2:32 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>> Anyways, I think that what might be truly useful to the board is to
>> actually get some feedback from North American developers. Those of us
>> that live here probably have very different perspectives about patents
>> and patent threats than those that don't. (For the record, I'm of two
>> minds about it myself...I definitely see both sides of going with one or
>> the other. So I understand that it's quite hard to make a decision for
>> the whole project.)
> 
> Would this be covering US developers only? If not then I'd obviously
> also be interested in the opinion of community members outside the US.
> In general: yes I'd be interested if it's not too much work.

The survey you mean? It could be interesting to get opinions from
outside N.A., but that's far easier to gather...

Also, I think mixing the two data sets would be a mistake...the
differences (or lack of) between opinions would likely be interesting to
see.

--Jeff

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