Re: [sword-devel] Ethical trading and Microsoft .....

2011-09-07 Thread Barry Drake
On 07/09/11 16:22, Jonathan Morgan wrote: I'm almost at the point of thinking that Microsoft has lost that battle already. I see kids of three and four who haven't gone through the education system, but are quite happy playing with iPhones, iPods, and other similar non-Microsoft technology. (

Re: [sword-devel] Ethical trading and Microsoft .....

2011-09-07 Thread Matěj Cepl
On 7.9.2011 08:13, Barry Drake wrote: Just wonder what you guys think? Greetings from the Red Hat towers ;) (and yes, by far not the only one, but certainly some of the reasons why I stick with Linux are ethical ones). Blessings, Matěj smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatur

Re: [sword-devel] Ethical trading and Microsoft .....

2011-09-06 Thread Teus Benschop
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 08:13 +0200, Barry Drake wrote: > but > the practices it is using to lock folk into Microsoft is nasty. I do agree to this. This was one of the main reasons I felt compelled to at least ensure that Bible translation work escapes from such lock-in, so that the Word of God m

[sword-devel] Ethical trading and Microsoft .....

2011-09-06 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there I mentioned in an earlier post that I no longer use Windows for ethical reasons. I had attended a lecture by Richard Stallman (GNU) and was quite disturbed. True, Richard is 'over the top'. He is a zealot and an absolutist. The real world is not ready for his degree of ideali