We could attempt to produce a feature film that can be used to explain why free software matters through a narrative that people can easily understand rather than relying on properganda loaded with technical and legal jargon which really does require a significant investment of time and energy to become well-acquainted with.
I know a few film students at the university where I live who would be very interested in taking on a project like this. Does anyone know of any similar projects in the works? wayne On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Jason Self <[email protected]> wrote: > Mozilla's campaigns to get people to use Firefox worked well enough because > there was a "thing" that people could go download and use. While it's > possible > to build the GNU Operating System it's not really a completed and ready to > use > system just yet. Most people use derivatives instead, with the Ubuntu > GNU/Linux > distribution you mention being an example of a popular one that also > bundles > proprietary software. > > The goal of simply getting people to use free software (aka "popularity") > is not > enough, in my opinion. The goal should be to instead teach people about why > freedom matters so that they will refuse proprietary software and not run > it > anymore. The big question is how do you change people's *values* and get > them to > value freedom? Anything that doesn't do that means that they'll just > switch to > the next neat thing when that comes along later. > > RMS discussed some of this in Avoiding Ruinous Compromises [1]. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html >
