On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 11:36 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
The GPLv3 process is not as open as it should be. Some useful things are only in formats like PDF, rather than plain text or html, there are browser and email client requirements to meet before participating in the comment system (even for reading) and the form of comments is limited to ones linked to short sections of the draft. I will retry the email interface soon because I have changed my mail client, but the instructions http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/email.html make it pretty clear that I am a third-class participant, required to ensure things which I have no way of ensuring, so I offer the above concerns in this public forum, in case anyone else will ask them first.
The current GPLv3 comment system should be junked before the end of the process and replaced with a more common email+web-forum-based moderated consultation which is open to all hackers with the most basic software.
Hey you know what? This commenting system actually requires a computer and a network connection!!!! Oh my God! It requires all that!
I pretend a snail mail based system because _I_ don't want to use computers or networks as they are evil ...
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Simo.