🚀 go-pugleaf

slhpv@cc.usu.edu writes:

>I was just reading the GNU newletter in gnu.announce, and it prompted a
>couple of questions.

>As a student $10.50/yr seems like a reasonable amount to pay for helping
>the industry avoid getting totally stuck in lousy patents.  However, will
>joining the League cause companies to frown at the possibility of hiring me?
>Do corporations have the right to see membership lists, etc?

>Just curious... I'd like to help, but would rather not starve...

Approxomately six months back I attended a meeting consisting of roughly
equal parts academics, patent lawyers, and software development execs.
My presence at this meeting was to represent my employer on the topic
of system admistration, but I was very careful to let all concerned know
of my membership in LPF.  The lawyers were interested and friendly, the
academics mostly ignored me, and the bulk of the software developers
asked for the address of the LPF.
-- 
``He has has been an evil man and ours and the world's enemy, but in
  Valhalla all earthly enmities are put aside, for all who go there, so
  it is said, are soon united in common hatred of the catering staff.' 
       -- Tom Holt, "Who's Afraid Of Beowulf?"