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On 05/04/10 17:35, Hugo Roy wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Le lundi 05 avril 2010 à 17:28 +0100, David Gerard a écrit :
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Er ... that's a political document.
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Last time I checked, political involves "power" and social control.
Here, it is just about: if you use Open Standards, it works. If you use
something else, it's wrong because you cannot be sure it works, which is
a pity when you are communicating.
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Yes, but this is exactly the opposite with ogg.<br>
What makes "it works" in real life is not open standards but
wide-spread adoption, however much we like to think otherwise.<br>
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I want open standards, but I don't push losing arguments in order to
advance open standards.<br>
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If me or others persuade the average man to use ogg and he actually
follows our advice, he'll come to hate us and think we are idiots
because instead of making things easier we made things harder for
him and all of his correspondents.<br>
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We then have to explain it's part of a larger campaign which will
actually bear fruit for him in a few years time if he can just bear
with it. <br>
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That makes it a political document, because it's about social
control. Us controlling him (by giving him half-truths) and asking
him to sacrifice his convenience (and his friends) for a potential
advantage so that in a few years things will be just as easy for him
as they were before he listened to us BUT ALSO easy for some others
who have made a conscious decision not so support proprietary
standards and thus "made things hard for themselves" (if he'll
listen for long enough to understand what proprietary actually means
- or why it's bad). [Note I'm expressing this from his point of
view]<br>
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<pre wrap="">This one is political:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fsf.org/news/why-im-rejecting-your-email-attachment">http://www.fsf.org/news/why-im-rejecting-your-email-attachment</a>
I am sure you see the difference ;)
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The difference seems to be in the intended audience.<br>
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Sam</b>
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