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#21

Thanks, Marc. You are a wise guy. Thanks for stepping in with your gentle reminder of a netiquette that should be implicit for all the members of this list.

If anyone has a crusade against someone or something (to be clear: Ubuntu, Oracle or Microsoft), I do not think that TDF lists are the right place to be.

TDF is FOR and not AGAINST: FOR free software, FOR the user, FOR document freedom, FOR open standards, and not AGAINST proprietary software, AGAINST corporations, AGAINST document lock in, AGAINST closed document formats and standards.

We will win being positive, they will lose being negative.

We are the white knight, they are the dark angel.

I hope this is clear for everyone.

#22

TDF is FOR and not AGAINST: FOR free software, FOR the user, FOR document freedom, FOR open standards, and not AGAINST proprietary software, AGAINST corporations, AGAINST document lock in, AGAINST closed document formats and standards.

Hi, Italo,

I think it would be clearer if the above wonderful statement read:

TDF is FOR and NOT AGAINST:
FOR free software,
FOR the user,
FOR document freedom,
FOR open standards, and
NOT AGAINST proprietary software,
NOT AGAINST corporations,
NOT AGAINST document lock in,
NOT AGAINST closed document formats and standards.

We will win being positive, they will lose being negative.

What a great thought for the new year.

Happy New Year, all!

Cheers,

Richard

#23

I think it would be clearer if the above wonderful statement read:

TDF is FOR and NOT AGAINST:
FOR free software,
FOR the user,
FOR document freedom,
FOR open standards, and
NOT AGAINST proprietary software,
NOT AGAINST corporations,
NOT AGAINST document lock in,
NOT AGAINST closed document formats and standards.

Thanks for making it better. English is my third language (my first language, of course, is Italian, and my second is French, which I have studied at school) as I have started studying it when I was 18. Now my English is better than my French, because I practice it more, but my English will always be far from adequate.

We will win being positive, they will lose being negative.

What a great thought for the new year.

This is what we have done in Italy. We have never expressed a negative thought on our competitors, and this has made us popular. We have used a lot of irony, and this has made us even more popular.

We are the white knight of free software, they are the dark angels of proprietary software.