I have to say that I think this is going too far. Before saying anything else, I do want to say how much I and others appreciate this list, and the fact that it is well managed, and probably the only medium-high volume list I read most posts on. So - by and large, an excellent job by the people at Minoru. I also recognise and appreciate the efforts that Dave and others make to keep the list fairly clean and close to its intended purpose, something which cannot be said of many other lists or newsgroups.
However....I do see it as a problem if discussion of some subjects is curtailed in a way which borders on censoring not because they are irrelevant (office suites are probably quite relevant to the clinical environments built and used by some people) but because they fail to completely satisfy the ideal of open source. There is often a gap between the ideal, and what someone can realistically put together as an environment for their users at any point in time. I don't think it is correct that discussion of such tools or environments should be prevented if they are useful or relevant to what people are developing out there. If the discussions of the tool are just considered uninteresting or irrelevant, then fair enough. - thomas beale
