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On 07/07/14 19:22, Hannah Poteat wrote: > On Sunday, July 6, 2014 1:29:07 PM UTC-7, Rita F. Martin wrote: > > > I signed up for the “Terms of Service” extension a number of months ago, and have YET to have been helped by it. It appears that, instead of doing the research yourself and then allowing us to benefit from it, you wait for each of your customers to do the research for you, thus having an extension built almost ENTIRELY by your customers…which, I, for one, refuse to do. > > Can’t you do any better than this??? This extension appears to be a rip-off of a service…i.e., promise something, get nothing. Hi, I have been coming back to this email in my mind a few times since I first read it. I have often found people to be surprised, even angered, by the idea of "community involvement". I can never work out how many these people simply don't understand what is before them and how many actually disagree with the way "we" (Free Culture, Free Software etc etc) work in our projects. We now live in a world of /Wikipedia/ being the biggest website... is it possible that people still don't understand? As someone on "the inside" of so many of these communities, I don't notice sometimes how far we still have to go to explain the idea that "you can build something together that belongs to everyone" (and that this does not constitute a con or exploitation). This email from Rita had made me feel quite sad really Anna - -- Share the phpList love: On twitter @phpList On facebook www.facebook.com/phplist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTvlawAAoJEHlsoyaYm9HIa0QP/j0ZIo/yavlXTFxDWhoN+rCe gMEYesg/dbBrMk7EuX+foi9CdsWxKiiw3kxPg+TIectIkreM5tLlKTKBsvpsmIUv Z1ratpF58hpklKDzBQAkL49Z/LyqS4TvjjJHIi2obBw4vYF019OTUNZNfDaj+cSQ 8bMuGKd6eDoJC1GD0Mj9jiNEKEPd8PvQV7zUgiFzChCeNYtWzVNPMAhj/Zw3ETn3 fkFe0NnLpuEZKcTmVXtacvP1F6h+LjtWn2ES+S+4lTh1mG5NsttVxVaPy5CRB1f9 kPpVO5RMqPgGooe3wcamgKftzecEDeUhlEhrDfydaDNP2sWBtxAk12QZRZ/dK1jG BohLSKP/HzBh1O5Wu81jiByaRhDkmAa6KL8G083jYAl37z57rq1z54I8wJ9PXy2E odrQRLofK1Pr/A6+QGRp11XsS7alc0eIOlfWfnMSY8tSG2UW++joi08LSGGkZCHd rPc0D9oku0uLYCNLK8GLxyH8iUOF9pBBak/Gy6tvT2jLoPJFh7aBI2fPYQTnM1WA eeiXPiHigwUpa8KkwzsRPhWMvK45TwJ6lUy5dU1R1WyRArSwBXFZqwclnNtKFK9+ K6Zpqpicm93YUGxzILETPOfx7irXNahddeGrywiZZLinlxjgHjFFqO3pzO8QC57a iEOHoFufZVvh+8PjtkL9 =01Ac -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
