[okfn-discuss] Sysadmin sessions on IRC + skype

Tue Jul 19 19:54:44 UTC 2011

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Big Blue Button require Flash? How open
is Flash?

>From the Wikipedia entry on Flash:

"Representing the free software movement, Richard Stallman stated in a
speech on October 2004 that:

The use of Flash in websites is a major problem for our community."

Cavalry, dismount high horses.

chad

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> -----
> >
> > 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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