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Re: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of PDF, DOC and other attachments from public comments
- To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [ga] Re: Proposal: ICANN should cease acceptance of PDF, DOC and other attachments from public comments
- From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:29:35 -0800
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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Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org
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