[Liverpool] proprietary formats @ liverpool uni

[Vladimir]

Sujita!
what's the VirtualDub case? can you remind?

Vladimir

On 07/03/2008, Sujita Purushothaman <sujita at skhot.net> wrote:
>
> Alan Pope wrote:
> > Whilst I agree that using non-free formats is bad, I think you could
> > possibly have approached this in a somewhat less confrontational manner.
> >
>
> I think lecturers have the obligation to be inclusive. I wouldn't blame
> students for being confrontational when lecturers are not inclusive. If
> someone came up to me and said, I don't have any software that can read
> your PDF  handouts, I would immediately do 3 things:
> 1. Point and help him/her install Adobe Reader.
> 2. Give the same document in word and try to accommodate them as far as
> possible next time.
> 3. Then give a lecture about free, open and closed file formats. I do
> this as much as possible anyway. :-)
>
> Outside an educational establishment, I would skip 1 and 2.
>
> Vladimir: You could also point them to the VirtualDub case and explain
> how once you save your data in one format you are effectively saying I'm
> going to pay Microsoft money for as long as I want access to this data,
> especially considering that software is now leased instead of bought.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Sujita
>
>
>
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