From the Prospect Magazine article “Mash the State“:
Much government work is done by civil servants emailing Word documents back and forth. Yet Berners-Lee refuses, on principle, to use Word, which is a proprietary rather than an open source format. On one occasion, one official recalled, Berners-Lee received an urgent document in Word from one of the most senior civil servants and refused to look at it until a junior official had rushed to translate it into an acceptable format.
Golly-wolly these zealots sure do make me mad.
Why couldn’t Sir Tim just be pragmatic and use the perfectly functional Microsoft Closed and Proprietary offering?
Stop wasting time trying to change things! If it’s “good enough” for most people, then that means it’s good enough!
(Via @timjph by way of Opendotdotdot)
#1 by Jose_X on April 6, 2010 - 11:08 pm
Working 9 to 5 is good enough, yet some high profile individuals refuse to go along.
I say we should hang, draw, and quarter all of these deviants.
Please put this question up to a vote.
If quartering is an acceptable solution to the majority of this blog's readers, then I say it is good enough for Tim and the others.