On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
>
>> And incidentally, Stallman writes things like (on his excellent
>> political newsfeed):
>>
>> "Please don't accept the invitation to post your statements of
>> Atheism
>> (or anything) on YouTube.com. That site is designed so as to require
>> proprietary software (the Flash player) in order to view anything. If
>> you want to post a video, post an Ogg Theora file on your own site."
>> <http://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-nov-feb.html>
>
> Nope, nothing purist about that!
>
> Does it ever occur to people who take positions like this that most
> computer users have neither the time nor the inclination to get so
> deeply into things?
Oh yeah, not to mention that they don't want to shut themselves off from stuff like YouTube for some obsession masquerading as a principle? It's not like you have to pay for a Flash player, either.
Doug