Sujita!<br>what's the VirtualDub case? can you remind?<br><br>Vladimir<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sujita Purushothaman</b> <<a href="mailto:sujita@skhot.net">sujita@skhot.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Alan Pope wrote:<br> > Whilst I agree that using non-free formats is bad, I think you could<br> > possibly have approached this in a somewhat less confrontational manner.<br> ><br> <br>I think lecturers have the obligation to be inclusive. I wouldn't blame<br>
students for being confrontational when lecturers are not inclusive. If<br> someone came up to me and said, I don't have any software that can read<br> your PDF handouts, I would immediately do 3 things:<br> 1. Point and help him/her install Adobe Reader.<br>
2. Give the same document in word and try to accommodate them as far as<br> possible next time.<br> 3. Then give a lecture about free, open and closed file formats. I do<br> this as much as possible anyway. :-)<br> <br> Outside an educational establishment, I would skip 1 and 2.<br>
<br> Vladimir: You could also point them to the VirtualDub case and explain<br> how once you save your data in one format you are effectively saying I'm<br> going to pay Microsoft money for as long as I want access to this data,<br>
especially considering that software is now leased instead of bought.<br> <br> Rgds,<br> <br>Sujita<br> <br><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Liverpool mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">Liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
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