Perhaps instead of "cranks" you might use the term "pioneers", giving an
image of us as pushing the limits into new and important territory, blazing
a trail that the less adventurous will follow only after it has been deemed
"fully safe".
--On Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:50:35 PM -0500 Paul Flint
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Josh,
Indeed we must avoid the term "crank", my apologies. In my annoyance I
forgot to include the back story...
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Josh Sled wrote:
> Paul Flint <[email protected]> writes:
>> In answer to the subject line "Who are we missing?", I would respond
that who
>> you are missing are the cranks who exclusively run Linux or a
derivative
and
>> thus have have never successfully managed to view your excellent
television
>> due to the fact that you encode with proprietary software.
>
> Who/what are you replying to, here? It sounds interesting, but there's
> no reference, quotation, URL or even To: or Cc: line to shed light.
>
The reference here is to the following VtSDA program that was in front of
the Vermont State Legislature last week:
http://www.cctv.org/watch-tv/programs/vermont-30-legislative-forum
I mistakenly thought that this was already mentioned on the list.
> (Also, could you please refrain from calling anyone (except yourself, if
> you so choose) a "crank"? I'm not sure how you think that helps
> whatever "cause" we might share.)
>
In terms of a crank, I specifically refereed to myself. Folks who run
Linux exclusively as their only desktop environment tread water in terms
of
many proprietary standards. Indeed this was self-referential and no
disrespect to the community of correspondence we both belong to, nor did
it
intend to objectify any perceived cause (or not :^).
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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