good points! thanks.
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:05 -0600, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 12:28 -0800, jim wrote: > > how do you know online petitions are not worth...? > > if i were in charge of a company or department, i'd > > make sure y group was attentive to incoming electronic > > info. i'd at least try to ensure that the filters were > > sufficiently granular and produced useful statistics. > > it's a question: do you have info or are you jaded > > or some such? > > I'm jaded. But seriously online positions are a perfect example of > slacktivism -- all someone needs to do to sign it is spend a couple > minutes of their time and go on the way. Someone may come along later > and present this petition to the company in question, but most likely > the CEO will (a) only waste a couple minutes of his time looking at it > and (b) have no idea whether this is a lot of people. But I suspect a > lot of these petitions never make it to the decision makers. > > If you want Netflix on Linux, why not write your own letter to someone > in the support staff asking for help (as though you assume it should > work). That forces someone in the company to respond and makes them take > some time talking about it. And by continuing a conversation for as long > as you canm it makes it clear that you're interested enough to put in > some effort. > > But really, you often need someone with leverage to go talk to them. If > Mark Shuttleworth thought that being able to watch Netflix on Linux was > important for his business, and could try to make an appointment with > the CEO of netflix, and address them personally that would make a big > impact. Likewise, someone who's a principal developer in a Linux video > app could also make the case. But he has do discuss why DRM problems are > non-issues (or unlikely issues). > > --Ken > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech