Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[David M Chess <chess () us ibm com>]

der Mouse:

> > There are all *sorts* of things to complain about in Twitter, Plurk,
> > Second Life, and all the Web X.Y Kool-Aid, but the things that people
> > who haven't used them to speak of think are the problems aren't
> > actually the problems at all...
>
> ...for you.
>
> For me, for example, they all have one major problem: they require use
> of a Web interface, or a closed-source "application download" (which
> wouldn't run for me even if I were willing to try it).

And as well as the text-mode Twitter clients, since I mentioned Second 
Life I should also mention that the official Second Life viewer (the 
"application download") is open-source (basically GPL, although the 
default download has an exception for some non-GPL libraries that it uses; 
but there's a pure-GPL version that you can use if you want to substitute 
your own libraries for those).  And there are a bunch of other open-source 
viewers (Imprudence, Hippo, RealXtend, etc) that you can use if you want.

Just sayin'...  :)

DC

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