I should have been more clear, I was trying to avoid being rude to ams. It was a truncation of a longer response where I was saying that ams should not have kept out of politics.
I meant that the participation methods of FSF act as a selector of participants thus rendering ams conclusion meaningless, and supporting you. Sorry not to have been clear enough. Regards, Sam -----Original Message----- From: "MJ Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: 26/09/06 17:57 Subject: Re: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3 Sam Liddicott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Alfred M. Szmidt wrote, On 26/09/06 13:34: > > You say that simply because you cannot use it how _you_ want, the > > whole system must be junked, you could simply install a webbrowser and > > use the system, or a PDF viewer, all of this is free software and not > > very hard to do. Firstly, I have a couple of web browsers installed, including Firefox, but they do not work with the system. Secondly, web browsers are too large to download over GSM, I don't even have a telephone landline at the moment (thanks BT) and I can't see how to download stuff to removable media on the public library computers. I say it should be junked simply because it makes various undocumented particular software demands, instead of using widely-available accessible tools. > > PDF viewers and web browsers are the most basic > > tools these days. PDF viewers are more basic than text editors, eh? > > Maybe if you paid the people who made the whole GPLv3 commenting > > infrastructure you might get what you want, but until then, they are > > going to work on something the majority of people can use easily, and > > they have done a wonderful job achiving that IMHO. If FSF needs help or funding to get a working comment system, they should ask for it in good time. I'd chip in and I'm sure many others would too, but I would not pay the people who made the current inaccessible system. > I also believe that most of those who have been able to participate have > been satisfied with the participation tools. That's not really surprising, is it? Thanks, -- MJ Ray - see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
