On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 11:15 +0200, charles-h.schulz wrote: > Hello, > > the get legal campaign is a very good idea. Maybe a small PR > operation would help it rise up in the media, who knows. > As for the risk that we may encounter due to the potential > "agressive" nature of the message, I think we might actually > tone it down by... toning ourselves up. > That is, we could use irony. When I read John's page I think I > see where he wants to go, and I have a suggesstion for this: > let's say that we actually stand behind the BSA (yes, yes) in > its fight against software piracy. In fact, we stand so much > behind the BSA that we want people to purchase original copies > of MS Office, and the ones who can't, or don't want to buy > them should use OOo.
There is a phrase "tongue in cheek" - like my earlier reply to Daniel http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgId=2592668 was "tongue in cheek"... This works for people who are "in the know", e.g. open-source people who appreciate the irony. We could use this in a PR to Newsforge or LWN for example. However, the humour is wasted on people whose knowledge of computing currently stops at Microsoft. > I hope I explained myself clearly because I reckon this is a > pretty strange idea. But a similar thing happened in France > where the FOSS movement expressed its solidarity and agreement > with a law that was forcing the IT retailes to clearly > indicate the certified origin -and the price- of the > preinstalled OS of the computers they were selling. The goal > was to let consumers know how much they were paying for Windows... Good. John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
