Showing posts with label letter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letter. Show all posts

Friday, January 21, 2011

Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past

San Francisco, CA

21st January 2011

Dear Michael Moore-Jones, I just finished reading your thought-provoking post - “A Future Without Personal History” - over at ReadWriteWeb and felt compelled to write you this note. I was particularly taken by your concern that your entire generation will grow up without ever having written and mailed a letter, and as such will leave no permanent record of your lives. Hell, you know you’re getting old when someone fifteen years younger than you is bitching about the state of the modern world. Still, yours was an argument well presented; certainly better than I could have managed at the age of sixteen. And I was with you all the way. Or at least all the way up to your conclusion where you suggested a solution to the problem of ensuring a sustainable record of your life: “copying and pasting communication from all different formats into different documents stored both on hard drive and in the cloud." It's on that point we part company.

Dear Michael: An Open Letter From The Present About The Future Of Your Past


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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards

An anonymous reader writes "The Business Software Alliance is trying to kill open standards. Free Software Foundation Europe has gotten hold of a letter in which the BSA tries to bully the European Commission into removing the last traces of support for open standards from its IT recommendations to the public sector. FSFE published the BSA's letter (PDF), and picked apart its arguments one by one."