Hello Gérald, To say the truth I'm a bit surprised by your brother's comments and, after re-reading the French version, I still don't agree with a part of his comments – I'm going to explain. I'd like to have the opinion of our list readers and yours. Note that Richard has produced a lighter version which is in my opinion easier to read.
> The article must stay centralized on DDL. > The fact of using easily on USB key, on a professional computer is a > first part of sharing. You mean I can show it to anybody on any computer? My feeling is that this is a detail. He didn't tell you where to insert this mention? > The OpenSource aspects may be developed in another article. > The share/contribute of knowledge may be described in this other > article. He's right in the sense that the article would be smaller then easier to read. However my fear is that people never go reading the second article… And free software is obviously a good reason for using DDL ;). I'd even say that it is more important than DDL! Honestly I reproach the most visible free software projects for being too much silent about free software. Best example: Firefox. With hundreds of millions of users, they should take the opportunity to spread the free software spirit all around the world. Their website should be obviously advertising for free software and their web browser should clearly show that it is free software and why. Ok it's not written in the Mozilla manifesto… :( The same applies for OpenOffice. Ok it was Sun and is now Oracle… :( > The using of GNU/Linux in national organisation (french examples with > references) is needed to implicate more users. He's right, we should localize the examples as much as possible. However I think we need to keep striking examples even coming from abroad. So maybe we may just add one or two examples that are also striking for the country (eg. in France the Gendarmerie Nationale). Beware that French is spoken in many countries and French readers are not necessarily French, it is not so easy… > Some games present of DDL are already used in school. Good idea, it should be few words to add in the paragraph “Won’t video games make them stupid?”. > The article must not be negative about another usage of games or > computers (console, television, ...) I'm afraid I don't find it so much negative: TV/console are not said to make stupid (except the sentence about school performance for TV-addicted children – but this is official study), nor to prevent from developing skills. We are just saying that computers perform better at developing user skills. It would be better to ask your brother what sentences he finds hurting. As I understand his comment, I think the risk is to hurt TV/console fanatic parents. I don't know if they're so many (when are you becoming a fanatic?), but probably more and more numerous with smartphones. Nevertheless some large IT companies are just dreaming that we don't do anything else but gaming and surfing the Internet in order to be able to dictate us what to buy, what to see, what to read, who to meet, etc. They're trying to take the place TV has gained during the last 10-15 years in France after TV channels came to the private market. So to me it's difficult to keep silent about TV/consoles… The main and essential difference is that computers, with free software and a free Internet, escape the control of large companies and governments. This is not a detail at all! > The reading must be reduced in examples by putting them in annexes > with references. The risk is similar as splitting the text into 2 articles I think: who would read the examples at the very end of the article? I don't believe that examples are optional because I hope many people will read the ideas of this article for the first time. Without examples, I fear they won't believe us: “What? I'm not controlling my digital equipment anymore? Ahahaha…”. So the question seems to be instead: are there examples whose relevancy is low? > Stay positive and concentrate in DDL values is important and can give > more users. I'm still seeing a risk: I think most people will prefer TV or consoles for their children if we do not compare a bit with them, simply because advertising is incredibly higher for them than computers for children. Moreover people already have TV sets and many also have gaming consoles, so why bothering with DDL? Ok DDL is free of charge, but TV too and games will be in a near future because of smartphones. So as the article title say: why try DDL? ;) > Important article that can be interpreted in many manner. That's just what I told in my first mail! We need to find what can be hurting and see how to make it easier to read for the reader's conscience. So what's your opinion? Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
