On Tuesday 24 May 2011, Rony wrote: > On 05/24/2011 01:18 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > > Note that all of these are absolute; relative comparisons (faster > > than, cheaper than, more secure than, easier to use than, etc.) > > have no place in promotion of FOSS IMNSHO. In any case, if you > > manage to push enough people to use a package for absolute, > > freedom-centric reasons, there will be enough developers jumping > > on to make the relative comparisons favourable :) > > Another way to look at the same points would be to make the FOS > software so irresistible that when users flock to it, they get the > added benefits of freedom and portability etc.
...until someone makes a more irresistible proprietary software and users flock to that, hurling freedom and portability out of the window in the process. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
