[Foundation-l] Software Policy Draft

[Andre Engels]

2007/9/4, Delphine Ménard <notafishz at gmail.com>:
> One random thought, prompted by Tim's reference to education/free
> software and which is our priority. I agree with him and therefore I
> think it is very important to keep in mind (I am not sure we can fit
> this in there, or even if we should) that these "principles" should
> also not make make it difficult for people to access our content
> *because* they are using proprietary software.
>
> As such, I would say that one of our principles should also make sure
> that ease of use for all platforms is one of our strong points.

What about "Other things being equal, content that can be handled by
most of the common software packets in its area, both open source and
proprietary, is preferred to content that can be handled only by a
smaller subset of those."


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