[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Fsuk-manchester] a little bit of good news
|
From: |
MJ Ray |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Fsuk-manchester] a little bit of good news |
|
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:02:56 +0000 |
|
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 |
John Rooke wrote:
> This morning I was delighted to find that my phone/ISP, the Phone Co-op,
> is recommending its customers to use free software pdf readers to read
> its bills.
Well, free software is clearly in the consumer's interest, so a consumer
co-op should recommend it, shouldn't it? ;-)
Being a bit immodest, I think that started with the resolution I
proposed for its 2009 AGM which led to a discussion where I emailed them
things like this:
I'd not seen http://www.thephone.coop/support/internet/software.html
before but it seems to recommend the same old bad legacy software
(such as Acrobat Reader) even when faster free alternatives (such as
Sumatra) are available.
Member democracy FTW? I'm not sure yet if I'll be in Manchester for the
Phone Co-op's AGM which I think is on 8 Feb. Will any readers of this
be there?
Regards,
--
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op
http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer.
In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/