Dear Balaji, On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 8:52 PM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]>wrote:
> hi, > > i am in free world! enjoying the freedom. > > we have variety of os whichever we can choose to our wish. > we dont need antivirus. > we have secure os than other proprietary os. > we have thousands of softwares to use that can be downloaded easily > via internet. > we have lots of forums and lots of mailing list to clear doubts and to > rectify problem. > Afterall we get atmost all the above at no cost. > > Then why people are not aware of open source/free software? why they > are going for proprietary, people are using pirated softwares and os > but why they aren't trying opensource. > Even my college mates know about atleast what the term open source > means,and they know about ubuntu as some labs are having ubuntu > (installed ubuntu by lab admin due to inspection,as they were using > pirated os before) but they are using the unsecure,pirated softwares > only. I dont find anything missing in my system that is available in > proprietary software. > What's the problem... why popularity is not there.. why they are > hesitating to come into free world > Great thought! :-) This has been a great challenge for a long period. The most acceptable answer is *inertia*. That is, most people don't want to move to new things until they have no other go. Once accustomed to something its difficult to switch over to something else, unless one has a strong will to do so. So we can just keep trying to attract more people towards Free Software. Though creating awareness about the moral principles is important, showcasing the power and some attractive things (Compiz, in most cases ;-)) can have better results, IMHO. -- நன்றிகளுடன், விக்னேஷ். http://krvignesh.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
