March 30th is Document Freedom Day: http://documentfreedom.org/2011/odf.en.html
It's one day out of the year when you should definitely attempt to get away with being this guy: http://xkcd.com/743/ ----------- As to the Tumblr discussion, yes we should use Free tools, but we do have to draw a line somewhere. I think identi.ca vs twitter is pretty illustrative of where and when and how to draw the line: status.net is clearly better technology with more features, and I'm willing to say a more user friendly UI than twitter. Because more people use twitter, twitter is useful for reaching more people. I know only one person on identi.ca for whom software freedom was not a consideration in joining, and the fact is software freedom isn't a consideration for most people. We need to show off our superior Free tools, but we won't have an opportunity to do so if we only use those Free tools to do it - we'll be preaching to the choir. If there is no superior Free alternative to tumblr, we need to develop one (I hate being the kind of obnoxious non-hacker who keeps demanding that someone out there in the miasma of free software developers run out and make whatever I want whenever I want so mething... I am making an attempt to teach myself CS.). I guess in summary, use the tools that reach the most people to plug the tools that are Free. Inasmuch as we refuse to use the tools that offend our principles, we marginalize our movement and injure our cause by limiting the reach of our discourse. Then again, I might be saying that as someone who refuses to use Facebook and twitter as much out of misanthropy as out of adherence to philosophical principles. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
