On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:44 PM, al3xu5 / dotcommon <[email protected]>wrote:
> I agree with Jason. > > Freedom is *not* a matter of quantity/"popularity" (just to follw the same > example: Ubuntu is very "popular", but it spreads proprietary software, > closed/patented/DRM'd formats and SaaS services...). > > Freedom is *not* related with "brand", "marketing" and "image" (please, > leave > this terminology, and these bad ways, to corporations that are interested > just only in making money and, be sure, not to our freedom and privacy...). > > Instead, in my opinion, if we want freedom we should act to expand the free > software philosophy, also beyond the boundaries of free software and free > licenses, to all aspects (technical and not) related to intangible goods in > general, and digital technologies in particular... and we should act to > increase the knowledge and the awareness of people, so they could regain > power > over themselves and their lives, even by mean of the free software... > Increasing the knowledge and awareness of people about some idea is increasing the popularity of that idea. It is in that sense that I see popularity as important. I don't see why brand, marketing, and image should be tabooed. They are effective ways to spread an idea, whether that idea is good or bad. Why not use them to spread a good idea? > > Regards > -- > al3xu5 / dotcommon > Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 > ______________________________________________________________________ > Public GPG/PGP key block > ID: 1024D/11C70137 > Fingerprint: 60F1 B550 3A95 7901 F410 D484 82E7 5377 11C7 0137 > Key download: http://bitfreedom.noblogs.org/files/2010/08/dotcommon.asc > [ Please, DO NOT send my key to any keyserver! ] >
