On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)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