The Software Freedomometer
I was presenting to a bunch of corporate folk a few weeks ago, one of my questions to the audience was “Where are you on the Software Freedomometer?” and I knocked together a few simple slides in OpenOffice.org Impress to illustrate the discussion. Even though the slides are rough, it turned out to be too good a concept not to share with a wider audience so here it is, the Software Freedomometer.
The flash version above was created simply by exporting the presentation from OpenOffice.org, here is the original file in ODF
Hello Alan, who is on the intervening slides? Microsoft & Richard Stallman being at both ends.
well that was the discussion point, the audience had to decide which slide they belonged on. Who do you think should be on the other slides? Where are you?
I’d say I’m probably 50-75%. I don’t think I’m worthy or hair shirt enough to share Mr Stallman’s 100%. Personally I don’t see a moral problem with using proprietary software and I use it where applicable. Heck I even write open source code too.