[pp.int.general] European Liberty Conference

[Justus Römeth]

  Sorry Boris, but even though we should try to present everything so 
that a wide public can have access to it, I don't think we should be 
telling people that they have to use flash or not. Presenting that 
content also in a pdf or html setting as an alternative shouldn't be 
asking for too much. And insulting people that decide not to use it 
(what about iphone users? not that they are generally much concerned 
with privacy, but still) is more than just bad tone, that's downright rude.


On 17.10.10 08:54, Boris Turovskiy wrote:
> Ahoi Maxime,
>
>> Hi Boris,
>> Please stop insulting people. Sometimes I wonder if you are twelve...
> I'm double that, but Richard's rants just bring in the teen spirit in 
> me :D
>> A lot of people are against proprietary software by ideology, and 
>> this is compatible with the Pirate movement.
> It is compatible, but not required, and I don't like people to be 
> denied "Pirate citizenship" if they are OK with proprietary software. 
> To be simple: I have OpenOffice and I can read doc.-documents, but an 
> average Windows user can't read .odt-docs. Is it OK for you?
>
>> Being rude at people who simply ask to provide /our/ documents in 
>> open formats is just showing that /you/ have lost any flexibility on 
>> this subject.
>> By the way, some of us use hardware and/or operating systems 
>> incompatible with Flash anyway. They cannot access to this document 
>> at all whatever they think about proprietary software, if Gnash is 
>> not accepted.
> Then we have to make a decision, don't we? Either we want to be a 
> movement for the general people - and then we have to endorse Flash 
> and MS Office - or we want to be a marginal nerd movement, in which 
> case you can surely present everything in a Linux-only, 
> jar.tar.-whatthefuckarchive-format and be proud of it.
> Have your pick.
>
> Best,
> Boris
>
>
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