-----Original Message----- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] OOo zealot, me?
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:47:36 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Not be a zealot or anything, but I thought that the regular readers of > this list might like to know that today I withdrew my membership from > my university's Green (environmental) club because they insist upon > sending mail as word documents. I told them that there was no sense in > them sending me messages that I simply could not open, and that > escalated into "deal with it, open source zealot". So I decided not to > deal with it. > Tis easier to bring about change from within than outside. Taking into account that the .doc files won't open in OO.o tell them that you need to print it onto trees at uni to read at home. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide Ask them should a political group be fostering the digital divide? Are they an elitist group? Then if the response is inadequate bump the discussion up the environmental scale to Greenpeace or your conservation ministry. Somewhere someone should have a policy on the digital divide and they can bring pressure to bear from above. I bet you did your share of the antagonism, hmmm? -- Michael There are several web sites that discuss the politics of Gates, Windows, and monopoly such as http://www.rense.com/general72/GATES.HTM which might be why people enjoy being locked in to MS products and why they call the righteous open source people zealots. Floyd --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
