Subject: RE: [Simple] RE: [Sipping] RE: text/T140 andaudio/t140was:[avt]Comments/questions on draft-ietf-av

From: "Guido Gybels" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:43:59 +0100

This is non sequitur. To indicate that users *prefer* IM is simply not true, because most users haven't had any choice.

At least in an election (well at least here in Europe...) people can see both candidates and read their programme. The situation with IM is more like elections under a dictatorial regime for example, where in theory there was "free" choice, yet in practice there isn't.

Or to say it otherwise, free choice is great, it's only that at the moment we haven't got it.

Have a good weekend!

Guido

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Subject: RE: [Simple] RE: [Sipping] RE: text/T140
andaudio/t140was:[avt]Comments/questions on draft-ietf-av

Not really.  If this were an election, and money were votes, then the 
current state of the market is the count which says that most people, withn
 o discrimination for/against their physical abilities, bought and 
therefore voted for IM over other RTT options that have been available int
 he past.

Your logic suggests that if only more people had voted for a candidate, 
then they would have liked that candidate. :)

Nice thing though, there is always room for niche markets.  And we need notb
 e ruled by the tyranny of the majority.  And even the mainstream productst
 ry to cram every possible feature in over time.

Mike

At 10:05 AM 7/2/2004 +0100, Guido Gybels wrote:
>Hisham,
>
><<We are negotiating the usefulness of it. Some people prefer IM, others>
 prefer interactive text>>
>
>Precisely that argument is seriously flawed IMHO. In reality, the overall>
 majority of users only has access to IM, not RTT. To argue therefore that>
 a substantial amount of people actually prefer IM over RTT is IMHO flawed>
 logic.
>
>Guido
>
>
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