Hi everybody, I recently joined the fellowship and yesterday I wrote a blog post on my new FSFE blog titled: Advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong (http://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2010/10/31/advocacy-doesnt-work-if-you-tell-someone-theyre-wrong/ ).
Guido suggested I add a paragraph about this idea to the advocacy FAQ. I don't want to do this without hearing what other people think about it, because advocacy touches the core of what we're doing. My post states that it's best to not talk about proprietary software too much when you're trying to advocate free software. Pointing out the problems of the proprietary software somebody uses might actually lead them to dig there heels in, preventing them to be susceptible to any of your good arguments. I derived this idea from social psychology and I would love to hear what you all think of it. Best regards, Jelle _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
