On 10/8/06, Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Different people need convincing in different ways, and in order to guarantee convincing, it is important that your first encounter not be your last. Some people will understand immediately the importance of freedom when explained properly, and will embrace it. Others will need time to first let the new jargon settle in, and then think about other aspects.
The set of people falling in second category is far larger then the 1st.
For this second group of people, it is important to have quick to remember terms that can be memorised without effort. Once the terms are no longer alien to them, additional qualities can be touched upon.
True, these are those people who wants "their work done". There are large number of businesses / developers / students who do have this question - "If I give away my source code, how will I make money". Everyone needs their own reasons to move to FOSS. We have to just present them with multiple advantages of FOSS - one of them and most important is freedom - and let them make their own choices. IMHO It will be fruitless and counter productive to force everyone to choose ONLY freedom as an advantage. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
