P.B. wrote: > Examples: > 1) At work they use "proprietary product X". You're practically forced > to have "X" on your home PC, too because very often you must do > something from home. You really have to be in a special position to > tell your boss: "No. I won't. Use free stuff. then I will/can" > The default answer will be: Then you can't stay in our company/team. > sorry. Next one, please!
And how do we judge an executive who prefers to use proprietary software? > 2) 1 out of 20 can open "Free Format Y". > So, now you show me e.g. a small company, home-user or no-name band > who will take that compromise and say: "Oh you can't read it? Well, > I'm soooo important that you will *have to* figure out how to do it, > because otherwise you can't work with me / listen to our stuff / read > my document" > We all know what most people on the other end of the line will answer: > "Don't care. goodbye - Do your IT homework and use 'proprietary stuff > X' - because that's professional. why? because everyone uses it!" I act this way. Sometimes I get quite exclusive content which I distribute in Ogg Vorbis or LaTeX. "You can't use it? Do your IT homework!" > 3) No Flash, no WLAN, no.... > I totally see your point, and I'm walking on a similar path. My > experience however is, that your setup & life is your showcase. If you > are into Free Software (and everything that's connected with it), you > would want people to see you and think: "I might give that a try". > If they see you typing on the commandline all the time, answering 99% > of their requests with: "nope. can't do that." - their impression > might become slightly biased to the negative side.... > > A: Those FS-nerds don't even have wireless! > B: Yeah! it sucks. I can't watch anything on my boyfriend's notebook. > And the music files he sent me the other day? My ipod wouldn't play > them. I'm soooo glad I got my own Mac! I have experienced this procedure with MS Word and Excel documents. Somehow they forget their own struggle with incompatibilities. I know of a case that a city administration couldn't read their documents. But thats no problem. They still use MS Office. -- regards Max Moritz Sievers _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
