On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@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