Thank you, Ariel. I could not explain my point better.

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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 
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