On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:27:41AM +0000, William Waites wrote: > I don't think that this is about encouraging people to use Free > Software -- even though I happen to think that is a good thing to > encourage. It's about not requiring people to use proprietary software > to participate in the OKF's activities and projects. > > It doesn't bother me if somebody else prefers a proprietary email > program or text editor or voip client. I might think that their choice > is misguided but that isn't the core of the problem. It bothers me > when I cannot use a free one despite having made an ethical and moral > choice long ago to use Free Software. > > As someone who has thought about this a lot and come to some reasoned > conclusions about it, I don't think it is right that an organisation > like the OKF asks me to make ethical and moral compromises in order to > participate. Especially since the subject matter is so closely related > to what the OKF does.
i hate to lower the snr with this one line, but: wisely spoken. -- pgp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg pgp fp: FD52 DABD 5224 7F9C 63C6 3C12 FC97 D29F CA05 57EF otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
