I don't think that this is about encouraging people to use Free Software -- even though I happen to think that is a good thing to encourage. It's about not requiring people to use proprietary software to participate in the OKF's activities and projects.
It doesn't bother me if somebody else prefers a proprietary email program or text editor or voip client. I might think that their choice is misguided but that isn't the core of the problem. It bothers me when I cannot use a free one despite having made an ethical and moral choice long ago to use Free Software. As someone who has thought about this a lot and come to some reasoned conclusions about it, I don't think it is right that an organisation like the OKF asks me to make ethical and moral compromises in order to participate. Especially since the subject matter is so closely related to what the OKF does. -w _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
