[odf-discuss] Richard Stallman - We can put an end to Word Attachments

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, December 19, 2007 12:29 am, Russell Ossendryver wrote:

> Don't you just hate receiving Word documents in email messages? Word
> attachments are annoying, but worse than that, they impede people from
> switching to free software. Maybe we can stop this practice with a simple
> collective effort. All we have to do is ask each person who sends us a
> Word file to reconsider that way of doing things.
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

...and if we do it with language and arguments (*) which have a bit
more relevance for non programmers  than Stallman's, eg:

http://digifreedom.net/node/45
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8616
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8

we may have a bit more chances of success in gathering enough popular support
to these causes before it's too late...

Sorry, but I really couldn't resist...

Marco Fioretti

(*) see:
http://digifreedom.net/node/56 (especially points 1 and 2)
http://digifreedom.net/node/57
http://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/16.3/#help__marco

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