On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:12:59PM -0500, drew Roberts wrote: > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 10:18:56 Malte Steiner wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't do Facebook. What use are sites that require you to > > > become a member just to see things? ;-) > > > > thats a good issue to bring up. Same happen at the puredata list where > > someone suggest to use GoogleWave. What is the benefit of all these > > WebX.0 things? I guess none, nothing which couldnt be done before > > I stayed away for a long time due to TOS issues but I can say that one benefit > for the personal account holder is in fact the ability to limit what is seen > to friends only. > > That does not apply to something like this though. > > I think it may be that we seem to live in a world where proprietary and patent > pending are selling points for most rather than the turn offs that they are > for me. > Agreed. As something of a Free Software zealot, I have a natural loathing for proprietary sites that require logins, and a deep suspicion of stuff like Facebook and Wave. I was kind of annoyed when a Free Software Currency project I'm involved in started using Google Docs for all the planning and document review... bypassing our own Wiki. That said, everyone uses this stuff, it's user-friendly for the non-geeks, and it's free (for now anyway). So, I guess, some limited assimilation is inevitable. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
