Powerpoint: the hidden enemy of world peace

[Hugo Roy]

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).

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
(less choice resulting from proprietary software monoculture → everybody
uses the same tools designed by the same people, here Microsoft).

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.

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.

Best,
Hugo
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