Il giorno mer 26 lug 2017 alle 13:28, Ioli Papadopoulou
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
Excellent topic; thank you for bringing it up.
Avoiding negative language will help us become BETTER ambassadors of
FOSS. Negative language creates negative feelings about us!
We can simply take lessons from other industries facing the same
problem. For example, let's see the language of small "natural
cosmetics" when they try to fight against "synthetic" dominant
competitors. They keep on pointing out what they do better, to the
Customers benefit: "no parabens, no additives, no chemicals, only
natural ingredients" etc. They do not name or imply their competitor.
They just repeat what is "better for you" and "does not harm you".
So, to come back to software: we could use strong laconic statements,
such as: "Debian sends no telemetry reports". It is true, everybody
understands it and it is not aggressive.
Hi Ioli
It looks like your opinion is the opposite of Daniel's opinion.
He's saying that we, as free software activists, should do _more_
negative campaigning. Why? Because a positive attitude, like caring for
the privacy of the users, may be perceived as more valuable if people
knew that proprietary software/services behave very bad in this regard.
I agree with Daniel and I don't think that negative campaigning means
negative language.
The american FSF has done lot of negative campaigning, in a polite and
positive way (as when you provide alternatives).
Persistence and patience are necessary, too. People need time to
contemplate and then change; they cannot change overnight.
Is it possible to make a "collection" of nice, positive statements
about FOSS and then distribute them to all members? I thing that some
of us, including me, would need some help, in "expressing in a
positive way"!
Something like this? :-)
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.en.html
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