On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:42 +0200, Hugo Roy wrote: > Le jeudi 29 avril 2010 à 08:26 -0400, simo a écrit : > > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:57 +0200, Hugo Roy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Le jeudi 29 avril 2010 à 07:37 -0400, simo a écrit : > > > > And this is in topic how ? > > > > > > This is an interesting article that shows how the proprietary software > > > monoculture can have weird effects on some other monoculture, such as > > > military culture :) > > > > So if the article had said "OpenOffice.org Impress" it would have been > > totally different and shown how the Free Software monoculture can have > > weird effects on some other monoculture, such as military culture ? > > > > Oh come on, this is just trolling... > > I guess you completely missed my point… if the article would have said > "OpenOffice.org Impress" I would have just said: it is using the wrong > tools (exactly like I said for Powerpoint in my previous email).
Exactly, so it is not about free software or proprietary software, therefore definitely offtopic. > Here, the fact that it is proprietary software is an explanation of why > they use the wrong tools → because they don't really have the choice I see no evidence of this. They use a presentation tool because they want to use a presentation tool, it doesn't matter if it is poerpoint or impress. > (less choice resulting from proprietary software monoculture → everybody > uses the same tools designed by the same people, here Microsoft). The issue here is not a better/worse presentation tool, nor the choice. > Don't misunderstand me Using OpenOffice would have been almost as stupid > as using Office. They are wrong tools for such things as establishing > solid military strategy IMHO. Not almost, for the problem at hand it would have been exactly as problematic. Because this is not a software freedom problem, just a military problem. > Finally, this is not offtopic. We are not discussing military strategy > here, but discussing on how good Free Software is for giving us the > right tools to achieve what we want. Ok, then tell me how Free Software would have made any significant difference here. Simo. _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
