- From: Andreas Kuckartz <a.kuckartz@ping.de>
- Date: 10 Oct 2013 09:04:10 +0200
- To: "Coralie Mercier" <coralie@w3.org>
- Cc: public-restrictedmedia@w3.org
Coralie Mercier: > Here are just selected parts: > [...] "So we put the user first, but different users have > different preferences. Putting the user first doesn’t help us to satisfy > users’ possibly incompatible wants: some Web users like to watch big-budget > movies at home, some Web users like [...] That statement is contained in the "HTML Design Principles" (http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/#priority-of-constituencies) from 2007. It obviously was intended be applied within the framework of the Open Web and not to reduce the "Open Web" to "Web". For comparison the Debian Social Contract also includes a somewhat similar statement: "4. Our priorities are our users and free software "We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for operation in many different kinds of computing environments. We will not object to non-free works that are intended to be used on Debian systems, or attempt to charge a fee to people who create or use such works. We will allow others to create distributions containing both the Debian system and other works, without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system." But it also contains this section: "1. Debian will remain 100% free "We provide the guidelines that we use to determine if a work is "free" in the document entitled "The Debian Free Software Guidelines". We promise that the Debian system and all its components will be free according to these guidelines. We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on Debian. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component." http://www.debian.org/social_contract.en.html Cheers, Andreas
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