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Ahoi Maxime,<br>
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Hi Boris,<br>
Please stop insulting people. Sometimes I wonder if you are
twelve...<br>
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I'm double that, but Richard's rants just bring in the teen spirit
in me :D<br>
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A lot of people are against proprietary software by ideology, and
this is compatible with the Pirate movement.<br>
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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?<br>
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Being rude at people who simply ask to provide <i>our</i>
documents in open formats is just showing that <i>you</i> have
lost any flexibility on this subject.<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
Have your pick.<br>
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Best,<br>
Boris
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