On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:24 PM, narendra sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Krishnakant <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:40 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, sankarshan > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > 2009/12/24 narendra sisodiya <[email protected]>: > >> >> I think, we can compose a standard reply for such queries. > >> >> > >> >> suggestions needed !! > >> >> > >> >> PS: please read mail from bottom to top [:(] > >> > > >> > Would it be possible for you to sum up the salient points ? > >> > >> A normal person make some basic point from user perspective. > >> > >> - They* are very comfortable with windows box > >> - They* feel difficulty while learning Linux > >> - Almost all software (in pirated form ) for windows are available > >> - They* says, one need to jump on terminal/etc thing somethimes > >> - Installing new software sometime make you tried from soul > >> - in nutshell they* are unable to find a solid reason for uninstall > >> Windows and install GNU/Linux over it. > >> > >> Most of the argument are valid from user perspective who just want to > >> get their work done in easy way. > >> > > So can GNU/linux allow you to do the work easily. > > I think there are few important points which we need to make users aware > > of. > > For example, although *not* recommended (I am personally strict about > > it ) one can open their word and excel files into openoffice, specially > > the latest versions are very good. > > They are already using some very popular free software like firefox and > > vlc on windows so it proves that foss is not that un-popular. > > > > We also must give user the idea that they get to use their common > > services like facebook, orkut or any thing for that matter including > > skipe on gnu/linux. > > > > To remove that commandline misconception, we must make it a point to > > show as many things on the gui up front to end users as far as possible. > > For example, rather than showing them how to do sudo apt-get install, it > > is better to bring the add-remove gui option to their notice. > > > > > > Also there is some thing we must tell our users. > > Drivers for the computer and other hardware is almost every time present > > in the system by default. > > While I am writing this email, I am actually at a 5 days workshop which > > I am conducting in Konkan with my team. > > With the result of many such workshops we have got arround the common > > man linux fear and many of them have already started to use ubuntu at > > least for their daily basic usage. > > > > Happy hacking. > > Krishnakant. > > @Krishnakant, > I agree with you. Infact I have installed GNU/Linux on few > friends and one boy (10th class) laptops. They do not find any > difficult most of the time. infact my 3rd standard nephew changed > wallpaper of Fedora , without even telling him the method to do so. > > @JTD > I agree with you also, but we cannot ask them to compare based > on price and license. M$ has already lowered cost of "their failed > products". Imagine a condition where M$ release his Windows and > associated software as "freeware". (a free of cost , closed source , > close license copy) to every student of India. > Quite aside from that argument, the concept of productionising intellectual value - and, implicit with that, most often other people's intellectual value - is essentially abhorrent. imho, it is one of the core problems we face as civilised beings. If there is anything of value in a 'heritage' then an oral, shared tradition is one of India's most cherished. Yet it is sought to be discredited in many spheres of life today. But within that larger thought, let us stick to software, by all means, in this discussion group. > we should prepare a defend side (points) where we can put reason that > "these freewares are bad for you". > It's the very sensible argument that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone pays. Eventually, everyone pays. As a society, we need to decide whether it is ok that such payment is made by many to benefit a few. As supporters of an open approach to software, we do not want to be taken for a ride. Hence, at the same time, we must ensure that a few do not pay in order to succor and support an even fewer, but more influential, lot (which is what has inevitably happened in 'socialist' experiments - I have put the word in quotes because what was practised has always been a wide breach away from what was preached). -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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