[A2k] Re: [Upd-discuss] Fwd: Blind Groups Sue ASU flor Kindle Use

[Michael S. Hart]

Please. . . .

Please learn to ADD your efforts to those of others going your way,
instead of SUBTRACTING their efforts from yours as shortsighted, or
incorrect, or any of that.

It doesn't "miss the point". . .it just doesn't do ALL you want the
whole world to do on this matter.

You sound somewhat like Burris Frazier Skinner, when he says it was
simple to teach birds to bowl, you just waited until they did their
job perfectly. . .and then rewarded them with food.

Of course, the point he is making is that they would all be dead of
starvation before you ever rewarded them.

So, I will continue to make suggestions as to how you can be a more
effective gainer of the goals you say you seek, while pointing out,
perhaps imperfectly, how you are doing the opposite.

You are alienating the very people who should be your allies.

They are going the right direction.

But it is a long journey. . . .

We can't start at the end. . . .

We must start at the beginning. . . .


Perfectionism. . . .


Thanks!!!


Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
Inventor of ebooks


Recommended Books:

Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury:  For The Right Brain
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand:  For The Left Brain [or both]
Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson:  To Understand The Internet
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster:  Lesson of Life. . .

If you ever do not get a prompt response, please resend, then
keep resending, I won't mind getting several copies per week.




On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     University?s Amazon Kindle DX Pilot Program Discriminates Against the
>     Blind
>
> It does that, but that also does something even worse: it subjugates
> everyone involved, whether blind or not.
>
> If the criticism of this attack on our freedom goes no further than
> to beg to allow blind people to e subjugated like sighted people,
> it misses the point.
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