On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:25:11 +0200, Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> [...]I was trying to point out that Flickr cannot start requiring >> users to <perform some task> as that will simply kill their business. > > Exactly the same argument was adduced about requiring > public houses to require their customers to either > refrain from smoking completely, or to smoke outside. > > The pubs /didn't/ go out of business, and most of their > customers came to accept that -- by following the rules -- > they were improving the environment for everybody. Not smoking or smoking outside is a requirement that is easily met. Adding useful alternate text to the ~300 images you upload a couple of times a year is not. (The requirement not being easily met was the core point of my argument, but you forgot to quote it.) -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Monday, 18 August 2008 13:31:04 GMT
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