> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > wrote: > >> > Good point, Emily. Ironically enough though, Arbcom itself doesn't >> > participate much in openly discussing its cases. Strange isn't it? >> >> Not really, doing the work is hard enough. Additional communication is >> on >> top of that. If decisions are made privately, it would have to be >> copied >> over again to make them public. The only alternative is to engage in >> open >> discussion on the wiki. They can talk about why they don't do that. >> > > Well it was Erik who finally convinced me of the superiority of > open-sourced > over closed-source technology. Open-source software allows for a greater > degree of freedom of movement, which itself has a synergistic > relationship > with greater social freedom concepts in general. > > So I agree with your implied meaning, that in a very short amount of > time, > we can make it so that no one has to buy or else deal with Microsoft's > products at all. > > -Stevertigo >
And abandon the star chamber, absolutely not! Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l