There are end users that care of freedom in a broad sense. I'm one of them, using Linux-based systems since late 90s :)
And we aren't so few, because the number is growing and specially in this worldwide economical crisis. You can see by objective stadistics that the adoption of FOSS is bigger in economically poorer (I dislike the "poor" term in essence, but..) countries than economically richer ones. The need of a corporate entity that monopolizes the support is contrary to the spirit of Open/Free Source. The same work can be done by local companies, improve competing and also those smaller companies can contribute in developing the product too. You can also follow the Mozilla approach, but that's a very different and difficult topic. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Augustine Souza <aesouza2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/15/11, Allen Pulsifer <pulsi...@openoffice.org> wrote: > ... >> End users do not care about >> who's right, who's wrong, who's been slighted, who is more pure, etc. They >> just care about products and technologies that are going to meet their >> needs. > > Painting quite a poor picture of end users? Are they really like that? > Or do we say so to support our argument? > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
