On 22/04/18 03:09PM, Jean Louis wrote: > * andrew <and...@andrewyu.org> [2022-04-18 13:53]: > > My problem is that when I say "please contact me by email because I > > don't wanna use WeChat", people go like "nope". Frustrating. > > I have that taking place, but I do not have such problem. > > Today I am managing project in Tanzania on distance by using XMPP > protocol, and all people are aligned and well. It is business > focused. There is interest and purpose, and people listen to > instructions. While they may privately use proprietary Whatsapp -- it > is strictly disallowed in our business. > > I tell to people to use XMPP, provide them the XMPP username/password > and they connect to me. > > If they don't, there is no benefit.
Finally, business managers who know what they're doing exist! Thank you, as this definitely helps FS. > Your friends, those who regard you with affection and trust, they will > connect to you over different networks. That is also proof if you got > a good connection, true rapport, true relation to that person or not. Some do, but rare. > So it is like a game with fish, if you have some benefit, they will > come. I have people on XMPP for years connected. Dangerous uptimes :) but I get your point. > > People in my grade be like: > > > > 1. Why do you have a Website? Why not "just" use Weibo (similar to > > twitter blah blah) > > I find it advanced if you have a website. The simple answer is because > you can do it, they can't. Their question is more along the lines of "Why do you even bother to make a Website?" > > 2. Why do you use "ancient" technology such as RFC822 Email, IRC and > > XMPP, when we have cool "good" stuff that everyone uses like > > WeChat? > > It is not ancient, rather stable and proven technology. > > WeChat cannot be compared to those. > > As a salesman of ideas, you better make a list of benefits of email, > IRC, XMPP, etc. to be able to counter such talk. I'll put that somewhere on <https://fcm.andrewyu.org>. Great points! > But even better, make a prize, like they can win something like phone > or what? -- provided they sign up and participate. You can make a > course about free software with questions and answers and let people > pass through it and always offer them some next prize, and later make > a physical group of people gathering together. Can't think up of a prize right now, but again, that might as well work. I don't want them to see learning FS as a utilitarian way to get prizes, though. > > 3. What is ".org"? All Websites I've seen end with ".com" or > > ".edu.cn". > > Today there are hundreds of Top Level Domain extensions, kids can't > know everything. Only seeing .com and .edu.cn is certainlly limited. > > > 4. Why do you care about "freedom"? Why do you care about privacy if > > you have nothing to hide? Why is freedom more important than > > convenience? > > Nothing to Hide - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics > https://www.scu.edu/ethics/privacy/nothing-to-hide/ > > Use arguments from the above article. Thank you! Still need to elaborate on freedom, shouldn't be too hard. > > (There's even a guy in my class who goes like: Whenever I draw a GNU > > head or a OpenBSD Puffy in art homework or something, he puts Windows 10 > > logos all the place and talks about why free software is bad. He's the > > exception (other people are genuinely asking questions) and is probably > > a troll, causes a lot of damage to what I do.) > > That is common, I find it funny. Use ricing for more advanced users I'll show emacs configs and demonstrate all the > good desktop features of GNU/Linux systems, like 3D compositors, > something flashy. Then make special category on website to show it > off. Yup! > Always include those meta tags in websites like Open Graph, Schema.org > as to distribute it better on social networks. I'll look those up later. Unsure what those are. > > > For example in some countries one may argue WHY did country allow only > > > specific provider to be accepted and provide free software? > > > > I do not undestand how "specific provider"s could be allowed only and > > provide free software, can you elaborate? > > In a free country government contracts should be given by tender and > not just approved by single officers as that is related to > corruption. > > Question is why did government choose to use some proprietary provider > and endanger citizen's privacy over some of available free software? > > How did it come for such software to be approved? Dig out. s/they pick some nonfree software to use/they make some nonfree software with the help of some corps/g
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