[WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

[Fred Bauder]

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

And abandon the star chamber, absolutely not!

Fred