No One Should Have To Use Proprietary Software To Communicate With Their Government (fsf.org)

Donald Robertson, writing for Free Software Foundation: Proprietary JavaScript is a threat to all users on the Web. When minified, the code can hide all sorts of nasty items, like spyware and other security risks. [...] On March 1st, 2016, the Copyright Office announced a call for comments on an update to their technology infrastructure. We submitted a comment urging them to institute a policy that requires all software they develop and distribute to be free software. Further, we also urged them to not require people to run proprietary software in order to communicate or submit comments to them. Unfortunately, once again, the Copyright Office requires the use of proprietary JavaScript in order to submit the comment and they are only accepting comments online unless a person lacks computer or Internet access. [...] The most absurd part of all this is that other government agencies, while still using Regulations.gov, are perfectly capable of offering alternatives to submission.

Comments

Next up: NO PROPRIETARY HTML!

[Isca]

The government website includes proprietary HTML. This should not be allowed. The HTML code on their website should be exactly the same as every other website. It should not include any customizations or references to anything that is not HTML, and the HTML itself should be laid out in a standard, easy to read manner that is not any different from any other site. This means everything else should match those other sites, including any use of frames, italics, bold and paragraph markup.

Oh yeah, and brink back the BLINK Tag as well!

Re:ECMAScript?

[Anonymous Coward]

Uninstall or disable LibreJs then.

Not everyone wants to compute like they were a member of the "bearded computer priesthood" at the MIT AI lab in 1972.

Stallmans axes...well his philosophies actually take choices AWAY from the users in favor of supposed freedoms they can really only take advantage of IF they are also members of "the bearded priesthood"

And I say that as someone who DOES use Linux.

GNU/Linux

:^)

Re:"their"

[Archangel Michael]

I reject your government, and substitute my own ... "strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords"