changeset 50442:885f63d7c285

Don't ask people to join the LPF. Ask for a volunteer to reactivate it.

--- a/etc/LPF	Fri Apr 04 21:15:53 2003 +0000
+++ b/etc/LPF	Fri Apr 04 21:19:05 2003 +0000
@@ -33,90 +33,11 @@
 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
-[phone], or send Internet mail to [e-mail].
-
-		       Chris Hofstader, President
-		       Dean Anderson, Secretary
-		       Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer
-
-Chris Hofstader can be reached at [phone]; FAX [phone].
-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?
-
-
-
+(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 [e-mail].
 
-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.