Sometime Today, Nagarjuna G. assembled some asciibets to say:
awareness that freedom of the users is important. Several of you are spreading the use of Linux[sic] among your friends, families. That is really good work. But when you did that you are spreading it as technology, saying we can do this, as well as this, and without viruses etc etc. This does work in a pragmatic society. Seeing this strategy working we feel this is sufficient, but no. It is not difficult for a proprietary vendor to adapt the power of a free
Different people need convincing in different ways, and in order to guarantee convincing, it is important that your first encounter not be your last. Some people will understand immediately the importance of freedom when explained properly, and will embrace it. Others will need time to first let the new jargon settle in, and then think about other aspects.
For this second group of people, it is important to have quick to remember terms that can be memorised without effort. Once the terms are no longer alien to them, additional qualities can be touched upon.
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