From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 11:15:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A61A16A4CF for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from amsfep14-int.chello.nl (amsfep14-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605A143FE9 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from sitetronics.com ([213.46.142.207]) by amsfep14-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20031028191511.DKBH5266.amsfep14-int.chello.nl@sitetronics.com>; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:15:11 +0100 Message-ID: <3F9EC030.9080102@sitetronics.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:14:56 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniela References: <20031028174321.84152.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com> <200310282003.12931.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200310282003.12931.dgw@liwest.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Friendly and Secure Desktop Operating System X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:15:26 -0000 >As a first step in the right direction, all file formats used for exchange >with other people should be open source and not bound to a single company. >Nobody should be forced to use a particular product (even when it doesn't >have anything to do with computers). > >Daniela > > On the converse side, without some element of monopoly somewhere, some innovations and security/safety standards can difficult to enforce. --Devon