On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:42 +0200, Hugo Roy wrote:
Le jeudi 29 avril 2010 à 08:26 -0400, simo a écrit :
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 13:57 +0200, Hugo Roy wrote:
Hi,
Le jeudi 29 avril 2010 à 07:37 -0400, simo a écrit :
And this is in topic how ?
This is an interesting article that shows how the proprietary software monoculture can have weird effects on some other monoculture, such as military culture :)
So if the article had said "OpenOffice.org Impress" it would have been totally different and shown how the Free Software monoculture can have weird effects on some other monoculture, such as military culture ?
Oh come on, this is just trolling...
I guess you completely missed my point… if the article would have said "OpenOffice.org Impress" I would have just said: it is using the wrong tools (exactly like I said for Powerpoint in my previous email).
Exactly, so it is not about free software or proprietary software, therefore definitely offtopic.
Here, the fact that it is proprietary software is an explanation of why they use the wrong tools → because they don't really have the choice
I see no evidence of this. They use a presentation tool because they want to use a presentation tool, it doesn't matter if it is poerpoint or impress.
(less choice resulting from proprietary software monoculture → everybody uses the same tools designed by the same people, here Microsoft).
The issue here is not a better/worse presentation tool, nor the choice.
Don't misunderstand me Using OpenOffice would have been almost as stupid as using Office. They are wrong tools for such things as establishing solid military strategy IMHO.
Not almost, for the problem at hand it would have been exactly as problematic. Because this is not a software freedom problem, just a military problem.
Finally, this is not offtopic. We are not discussing military strategy here, but discussing on how good Free Software is for giving us the right tools to achieve what we want.
Ok, then tell me how Free Software would have made any significant difference here.
Simo.