Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding since okfn-discuss silently eats messages from non-subscribers > > ----- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:33:34 -0400 > From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Sysadmin sessions on IRC + skype > > > Helping Skype/Microsoft collect data and encouraging proprietary > software seems like a very strange activity for the Open Knowledge > Foundation. I cannot help but be extremely disappointed. > > Data collected by Microsoft, and perhaps handed over to Big Brother, > is not open data. It is not what OKFn should promote.
It does seem reasonable to give a large benefit of the doubt to the open alternatives. Are they really so far inferior in quality or usability? I know each individual choice of closed source can seem minor, but they can have a cumulative demoralizing effect. Disappointment is not a productive state... See y'all, Matthew _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
