Re: FFII-online-protest against patents
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:54:12PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:38:16PM +0200, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> > > > I guess that most of you are informed about software patents and
> > > > know that they are incompatible with most, if not all, free software
> > > > licenses(if not visit http://tinyurl.com/k64f).
> > > No need to encrypt and hide URLs or did I miss something important?
> > I often use tinyurl.com to make URLs shorter when writing emails.
>
> It's only an annoyance, and is pointless.
>
I'd disagree.
Having a 400 character URL wrapping on a 80 character screen is more
annoying.
It is, however IMO, good to add a description of where the tinyurl
points to.
Neil
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