Generally speaking I find people come to free software because they discover the idea, seldom because they discover functionality. So, on that level i think its good to put the idea in front of them whenever you can without making them feel bad for not using free software.
its not about walking gently with a big stick (as the FSF is sometimes prone to do) but just walking gently as a friend with a few sundry comments to awaken the slumbering... adam On Wed 04 Dec 2013 06:51:44 AM PST, stef wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 11:27:41AM +0000, William Waites wrote: >> I don't think that this is about encouraging people to use Free >> Software -- even though I happen to think that is a good thing to >> encourage. It's about not requiring people to use proprietary software >> to participate in the OKF's activities and projects. >> >> It doesn't bother me if somebody else prefers a proprietary email >> program or text editor or voip client. I might think that their choice >> is misguided but that isn't the core of the problem. It bothers me >> when I cannot use a free one despite having made an ethical and moral >> choice long ago to use Free Software. >> >> As someone who has thought about this a lot and come to some reasoned >> conclusions about it, I don't think it is right that an organisation >> like the OKF asks me to make ethical and moral compromises in order to >> participate. Especially since the subject matter is so closely related >> to what the OKF does. > > i hate to lower the snr with this one line, but: wisely spoken. > -- Book Sprint Facilitation Book Production Platform Design Collaborative Production Services _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss
