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Originally posted by spazlabz@Oct 20 2003, 06:35 AM
But FINALLY, I am gonna ask my wife (YES I ASK HER THESE THINGS) if i can send you some money. it won't be much, but it'll be what I can currently afford.
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I know all about the "ask her these things" things since my wife ALLOWS me to do the activist thing, since i am focused on bringing awareness and search for prior art, that i don't spend my time earning $$.
I am only seeking pledges from webmasters, not accepting any money. If, as a group, $250,000 can't be raised, to distribute the financial logistics over a broad base can't be done, then FTPF will not form.
If 2,500 webmasters pledged $100 each... then FTPF can be formed and do all the pro-active things i want to do to fight against patent abuse.
For the bigger players, if you can pledge more, that's fantastic...i had several pledge larger amounts because they were able to.
For the masses of adult webmasters, I understand the economics and struggles of your businesses, and that's why my thinking was to ask for a one-time contribution of $100... as a way of spreading the costs.
Keep in mind, the starting $250K, will be added on by mainstream companies when I show them i have a war chest started, already active in the fight, and looking for bigger donations from the larger companies to further build up the war chest.
$250K is just the startup money, I will raise more from mainstream, and not come bacl to the webmasters and ask for another round.
I am hoping that FTPF will be up and running before Vegas Internext... i will be there as a "booth bunny" for ASACP as well as might be on a panel that talks about patents and their affect on the biz.
Fight the Patent!