On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:57:42 -0700 Healthy Beaver wrote: > From: Michael Adams > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Not be a zealot or anything, but I thought that the regular readers > > of this list might like to know that today I withdrew my membership > > from my university's Green (environmental) club because they insist > > upon sending mail as word documents. I told them that there was no > > sense in them sending me messages that I simply could not open, and > > that escalated into "deal with it, open source zealot". So I decided > > not to deal with it. > > > > Tis easier to bring about change from within than outside. > > Taking into account that the .doc files won't open in OO.o tell them > that you need to print it onto trees at uni to read at home. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_divide > Ask them should a political group be fostering the digital divide? Are > they an elitist group? Then if the response is inadequate bump the > discussion up the environmental scale to Greenpeace or your > conservation ministry. Somewhere someone should have a policy on the > digital divide and they can bring pressure to bear from above. > > I bet you did your share of the antagonism, hmmm? >
> There are several web sites that discuss the politics of Gates, > Windows, and monopoly such as http://www.rense.com/general72/GATES.HTM > which might be why people enjoy being locked in to MS products and why > they call the righteous open source people zealots. > I see Open Source Zeal every day. I see the kickback on it every day as well. I happily use Microsoft software that for the most part i haven't paid for (at work). I also have converted work to OO.o and have several other OSS programs available. I see the Zealotry and the kickback both as extremes and sit probably 2/3 of the way along that line between the extremes as i use Linux exclusively at home. That 1/6 lean can be enough to have some of my own comments come across as OSS zeal in itself, it's hard to avoid. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
