[okfn-discuss] Sysadmin sessions on IRC + skype
Matthew Brett
matthew.brett at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 16:05:00 UTC 2011
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:17 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> Forwarding since okfn-discuss silently eats messages from non-subscribers
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> ----- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> -----
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> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:33:34 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
> 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
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