Re: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of PDF, DOC and other attachments from public comments

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James and all,

  It seems clear that ICANN prefers to disenfranchise.


-----Original Message-----
>From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 25, 2010 11:29 AM
>To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
>Cc: GNSO GA Mailing List <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of PDF,    DOC 
>and other attachments from public comments
>
>
>At 05:40 PM 1/25/2010 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:04:35AM -0800,
>>  James S. Tyre <jstyre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>  a message of 22 lines which said:
>>
>> > MS has always offered free viewers for Word, Excel, Powerpoint and the
>> > like.
>>
>>All of them work only on MS-Windows and I am not aware that Microsoft
>>offers gratis copies of Windows
>
>
>Then use Open Office.  It's free, it can read Word files (both the 
>older .doc format and the newer .docx format) and it runs under 
>Linux, as well as other operating systems.
>
>You may think I'm making too much of this, and perhaps I am, but for 
>a very specific reason.  I am, and for a long time have been, 
>significantly blind.  I "look" constantly for tools that might better 
>assist my computer usage, and friends (including dedicated Linux 
>users and dedicated Mac OS X users) do the same for me.  But it's 
>just a fact that the tools that best enable me are Windows tools, not 
>Linux, not Mac OS X.  I'd switch to Linux in a heartbeat if there was 
>software that runs under Linux that helps me as much as software that 
>runs under Windows.
>
>So shall we ban a piece of proprietary software that you don't like 
>but for which you have a quite suitable alternative, or shall we 
>disenfranchise (loosely speaking) folks like me?
>
>
>
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Concerned regards,

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