Thank you, Ariel. I could not explain my point better.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ariel Biener Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:19 PM To: Ori Idan Cc: Imri Zvik; linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Re: [YBA] Job Opening On Wednesday 17 May 2006 16:13, Ori Idan wrote: > Free word viewer? yes, free as in free beer. > YBA is talking about free software in the sense of free speach. > He wants a person to understand the meaning of free software and sending > in a free format is one way of showing it. It is a very narrow minded view to try to guess at one's character, interests and tendencies by judging the headers of the mail he sent, or the format of the document he used. There could be a plethora of reasons why the person used this or that mail client, OS or format (for example, being abroad, or at an Internet Cafe or at his parents house), which has nothing to do with his abilities, interests and orientation. It is not in the job description to control the location of where the mail is being sent from (and it is absurd). In short, YBA would rather dimiss a person based on a bad premise, than being open minded and judge the person by knowledge, abilities and resume. That is his privilege of course, but, you already understand what I think of it. Pluralism is a good thing, it widens horizons and by opening up to people you gain more than you lose. But then again, you can decide to require of them to be of your "religion", so even if they are FOSS developers for years, or have contributed alot to FOSS, but like to use hotmail, or god forbid, had to use Outlook Express for some reason, they're out. > As for Microsoft or Bill gates, we all understand that they are not the > root of all evil. > We are not against Microsoft, we are against the idea that someone will > have control over the software we use or over the format we use to > distribute our documents. Thank you, you just proved Imri's point. > No one here is beconnimg religous. > Protecting my own (and others) freedom is not a religous war. Of course it is, when you force others to use or not use something. You then become as bad as the ones you try to escape from. If you want to fight that war (not that it needs fighting), be plural and tolerant, which is exactly what FOSS is about. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]