[CS Bureau] Derrick's project - status after Prepcom 2

[Robert Guerra]

Georg:

thanks for your comments on this.

As was the case for some of the negotiating that took place in Geneva 
for the prepcom - i challenge you to change your negative reply to a 
more constructive, a more positive one that recognizes the issues and 
seeks to address them with a positive solution.

if you have an alternate solution that is useable and ready to deploy 
by people who use a variety of different platforms (free and non- 
free), then by all means propose it and spend the time, energy and 
effort to  get it to work.  If you can't do that - then please admit 
there is no free tool that can do the job...

regards

Robert



At 11:04 AM +0100 3/7/05, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
>  || On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:15:46 -0500
>  || Robert Guerra <rguerra at lists.privaterra.org> wrote:
>
>  rg> Use of collaborative communications tools could be of great help.
>
>I am sorry, but I do not think that proprietary tools that exclude a
>major part of Civil Society from participation are any help, at all.
>
>Using proprietary software is in plain contradiction to the principles
>of Civil Society. So in my opinion it is better to work with proven,
>inclusive tools that respect the values of Civil Society than going
>with "more sexy" tools that are discriminating.
>
>Given the current state of Civil Society, introducing another source
>of irritation does not seem like a very good idea.
>
>Regards,
>Georg
>
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