On Friday 18 January 2008, Dave Neary wrote: > > How does "freedom" or "community" speak to those folks in a concrete > > way? I don't think it does.
as Dave points out, that's only because we've been stupidly bad at communicating the benefits of freedom. we've allowed some proponents to not only present the academic / philosophical ideas, but we've allowed them to *dominate* that conversation. that is easy to change. > When I talk about messaging around freedom & community, this is exactly > what I'm talking about. Let's take back "free" as our word, in the "23 > immutable laws" sense, since we are, after all, the Free computer system. absolutely. it's also key that of all the things that differentiates us, it is this freedom that is alone unassailable (sp?) by our competition without opening up and essentially joining in. (hello, OpenSolaris) this makes it a compelling USP as it's one we can rely on being there in several years time, unlike, say "stability" or "cost". Linus noted in an interview recently that it's the open (free) style of development that ensure the Linux kernel will continue to outpace and out-innovate anyone over the long haul. yes, that's a very technical benefit (there are other many more general audience ones, including Dave's contributions), but it gives a really good flavour for the idea imho. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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