[WSIS CS-Plenary] Virtual Participation - Establishment of working group?

[Beatriz Busaniche]

El mié, 17-03-2004 a las 01:20, Robert Guerra escribió:

> to quote my original message...
> 
> 
> "I do recognize that those amongst us use a variety of different OS 
> platforms, and as to not enter into a religious debate as to which one 
> is best, ideal , more appropriate or more consistent with a certain 
> ideology or another my intention is to help bring people together in a 
> constructive way to move from discussion to concrete actions and perhaps 
> even deliverables in the weeks and months ahead."
> 
> building on that let's engage in a constructive, productive discussion 
> for all users. diversity is good

That's perfect Robert, diversity is wonderful, let's respect diversity.
first point i guess we are agree! 

let me explain you my point, so we could go on with our construction of
a participatory process.

let's forget about Gnu linux! 
I want to support Jean Louis words. To be part of this test, and then to
this working group, and then to this virtual plenary we need:
pentioum 3...  ram:256Mb.  And to download 38 MB of a software without 
access to the licence until you already download it. (of course,
propietary software).

do you really consider that this facilitates a participatory wide and
democratic process?

let's go back to GNU Linux!
I am using the last version of an OS... I have a Pentium 4 and 512 MB of
RAM.  and adsl to be connected, Even thow i cannot access because i
didn't get the code to compile this software to use it in my own OS.

It's not a matter of religions, it's a practical issue. 

I don not want to start a discussion here about rights... did you hear
that word? we used that word a hundred times during WSIS process.  so, i
will not argue about the rights that all of we loose when we use
propietary software.
Ok, we are agree, it's not a matter of religion... it's a matter of
rights, but we don't want to discusss about this on this list.. where we
discuss about a lot of different rights but never about our rights as
software users.. seems that a discussion about free software has no
place here until we have a problem like this, when we finally discover
that it is a religios issue!! great! 

but ok, forget about rights...  let's talk about diversity...

to respect diversity we need to have a software that runs on a diversity
of existing OS. For that, the software must be java or they have to give
us the source. it's a matter of respect of diversity and a technical
issue.  that's far away for a dogmatic issue. 


Hope you will understand that i am just trying to be constructive. I
also support Enrique's proposal. why are we looking for something that
is so complex when we could use accesible and simple tools like irc that
runs wherever???







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