On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 03:34, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > [resent from the right address, sorry] > > On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:15 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > [...] >> What about translations, accessibility and other needs of minorities? >> For big companies it's *impossible* to support those needs but for >> community-developed software that's just what we do. > > Large companies often do work to address needs of significant > minorities, either because of market pressures or because of > legislation. Not always, for sure.
But we have the "inherent advantage" of minorities being able to cater to their needs because our software is free. > When it comes to accessibility, though, making software easier to use > for people with specific needs often ends up making the software easier > to use for everyone. > >> I think it would be sad to focus just on the ethical argument when we >> have so much practical potential that can help us engage first-time >> users. > > Ethical and Practical do not need to be mutually exclusive. The point I was trying to make is that we *do* have an "inherent advantage" in bringing practical benefits to users and would be sad to relinquish that, as I understood RMS was saying. Regards, Tomeu > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org > > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
