Re: [Trisquel-users] Sticking To It

[oralfloss]

I have a similar story as to why I started using only free software. I also  
have many friends who are big consumers of proprietary non-free programs. One  
of my friends uses just about every service that Microsoft owns, whether it's  
Dropbox, Skype, WMA Lossless, or even Windows 8 for the phone. The other  
friends always complain that "there's no games for linux" and "linux sucks."

As for me, I am very oriented towards using GNU/Linux and open source  
programs, but being free or not isn't as much of a concern to me. Despite  
this, I think I'm still on the right track as I only have 2 non-free programs  
on my computer, both of which are open source. As for convincing your  
friends, changing their morals will only affect them for the better or for  
the worst. Most people consider convenience and their addiction to games to  
be more important than their civil liberties, security, and their privacy,  
but so be it. Converting someone to FOSS-only is not easy, but the best place  
to start would be making them concerned for their privacy. This gets them  
into the moral-shift towards freedom, which will be gradually followed by the  
switch to FOSS, ultimately.