* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <[email protected]> [2021-03-20 19:45]: > greg, with respect, this is defeatist.
That is what I was thinking but could not express myself in English well. > i think the key here was laying it on thick with a 24in trowel that it > wasn't actually about "poor little me", but that the website was in > flagrant violation of UK laws regarding discrimination, by setting an > artificially high barrier against *all* people in the UK who were > poorer than average (cost of proprietary software, high cost of > computer necessary to *run* said proprietary software) > > i have not read what i wrote for many years, but i don't think i even > mentioned "Software Freedom". > > do not for *one second* consider yourself powerless. there will be > laws in your country that these people will be directly and > unthinkingly violating. > > as Civil Servants the shit will truly hit the fan for them if they are > found to be in violation of those laws. loss of pensions is their > worst nightmare. That is the point, letters written to government with some key factors related to constitution, laws and regulations can make wonders. Congratulation. And don't stop. Jean _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
