On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:02, Vihan Pandey wrote: > works well towards turning users away from FOSS rather than > > > attract them. You could probably have put it in a better way so as to > > get your point across without offending the other. > > if you think there was a better way to do the same please do mention it.
Yes. Just show them how something else is better. Suddenly my friends are in love with pdf now, after using OOo. They used OOo for a while before they got their hands on the newest M$ Office, which supports exporting to pdf, apparently. Looking at that software, I can understand why they've thrown out OOo again. I can't argue, because they don't care about freedom. They want better software. These are people who love their Kubuntu and ask me if it will be possible to run Office 2007 on Linux. Learn to pick your fights. I will agree that sometimes FSF's attitude turns people away. For example, myself. > If there is even one person who actually thinks.... ``i wonder why that > lunatic on the list hated .doc so much?" if that person makes even an iota > of effort to search for the reason. Its worth it. Because then you achieve > something which is nothing short of creating history, and that is - making > a person think about something they otherwise take for granted. Brute force isn't always the right choice. Learn to pick your fights. You would actually win more fights if you did. -- ---------------------------------------- Mrugesh Karnik GPG Key 0xBA6F1DA8 Public key on http://wwwkeys.pgp.net ----------------------------------------
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