Henrik Ingo wrote:
not see "Free Calls, Free Software" problematic at all. It should be
clear to everyone then, that it is the Free as in FSF we are talking about.
Does anyone agree?
No. This is totally obscure geeky language to 99% of the target users of
Wengo I presume... And about the same percentage of the target has never
heard of the FSF, no offense meant. The target is not the computer
programmer next seat ; the target is your mom, my wife, my salesperson.
People who know nothing about the difference between "free" and "free"
because they don't HAVE to know. They don't care, and there's nothing we
can do about it.
So what's the goal of Wengo and the OpenWengo community here, as I see it?
(a) make people use OpenWengo (b) get revenue streams for Wengo so it can
continue backing and improving OpenWengo. From that perspective, "Freedom
to code" is just pure non-sense as a marketing argument, sorry to say.
In fact, the "Free Calls" part is analogous to "Free Software" as well,
because it is not only about calling for no charge - there is a charge
if calling PSTN - but also the freedom to use any SIP provide. Unlike
Can you realize how incredibly geeky this is ? Ask my father's best friend
- 78 years old, touched a computer for the very first time in 2003 -
if he knows he can change of SIP provider with his VoIP tool ! Use that as
one of your major marketing arguments and people will look at you as if
you were an alien from outerspace... The only answer you get will be
"uuuuuhhhhh?".
KISS : Keep It Simple and Stupid. Not because people are simple or stupid,
but because people need to be trained to more complex things. So start with
simple and stupid.
Skype, say. In that sense, it is also wrong to argue that "Free Calls"
leads to think of "Software for no charge" although I do agree most
people might interpret it like that.
I tend to disagree.
By the way, onnelista uutta vuotta...
</Daniel>
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