On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:39 -0800, Geoff Scott wrote: > > Is there we start the drive to put a firefox-like add in the NYT? > > I hate the flag, and I hate the greed it's come to represent.
The problem with this issue and all like it (CSS for example just as the article mentions) is that most people don't really care. They don't understand the issue to start with and even if they do, they still don't understand why they should care. In the case of CSS, why does the average consumer care? They can buy their DVD players (and they are damn cheap now) and their DVDs and play them. "What's the problem?" That some future company cannot do something revolutionary and cool with DVD technology does not affect their day to day life. They don't miss the future possibilities they don't already have. You have to break that barrier to get any mass movement on these kinds of issues. It's like what a friend of my girlfriend's said when I tried to get her to use jabber (and spread the use to her "contacts") rather than MSN and ICQ. Even after I explained to her why using something open and unencumbered is so important for future needs she still asked "but why do I care?" and lamented about how ICQ did everything she cared about. It's a hard battle. b.
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