[WSIS CS-Plenary] ITID's The World Summit in Reflection

MJ Ray mjr at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Apr 7 02:22:06 BST 2005


Milton Mueller alleged:
> Ah, more ideological bullying from our friends in the free software =
> movement. Notice that we are not given an argument by Francis, we are =
> given a "demand"  and urged to "denounce" those evil people who only put =
> some, not all, of their journal contents on line.=20

[eo; en below]
A, neprovokitaj atakoj pri liberaj programaroj de niaj amikoj
en la universitata movado! Mi kredas ke cxiuj povas vidi
facile ke la posxtajxoj, al kiu Milton Mueller respondis,
estis inspirita de la subtenado de la movado por "Malfermaj
Arkivoj". Cxi tie havas kelkajn similajxojn, sed ne estas
ekzakte liberaj programaroj.  Mi ne scias kial MM mencias nin.

Ah, more pre-emptive free software bashing from our friends in
the university movement!  I think that everyone can easily see
that the message to which Milton Mueller replied was inspired by
support for the Open Archive movement. That has some similarities
but is not exactly free software. I'm unsure why "MM" mentions us.

Notice also that "demand" is basically a synonym for "ask" even
if it has other connotations in some dialects of English. I
think a bit more civility in interpretation would be good.

-- 
MJR
http://www.affs.org.uk/~mjr/




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