____/ BearItAll on Thursday 09 August 2007 16:57 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Advocacy 101: Don't Preach, Ask Questions
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | He claims that many FOSS advocates have been going about trying to
>> | "sell" GNU/Linux to the rest of the world, when they should be simply
>> | pointing out the obvious. He starts off with the notion that most
>> | non-techies actually don't even have a frame of reference to grasp the
>> | idea of freedoms 0-3. The truth is, they wouldn't understand freedoms
>> | 1-4; freedoms 0-3 would boggle their minds.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blue-gnu.biz/node/76
>>
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> It's the washing powerder syndrome. Daz and Percil are the biggies of
> washing powerder, people buy it because they are the biggies, so they
> assume they are getting a better wash or a whiter white. When in fact the
> super market's own brands come off the same factory lines as the boxes with
> Daz and Percil written on them. You can get whiter whites for less pennies,
> but that doesn't work with the buyers, they want the word Daz on the box.
>
> Crisps, we have a smelly crisp factory near here, gads that place stinks,
> every brand of crisps you have ever heard of come out of there off the same
> lines, only the packets at the end of the conveyor belt change.
>
> The exception to that is M&S crisps, they send in an inspector on the days
> that their crisps are made, batches with too many black bits are sent to
> ordinary packets, clean looking batches are send to M&S.
>
> So you can buy a non-name bag of crisps and get the same crisps as in
> Walkers and others.
>
> MS software is the same, people know the name so assume the better product.
Nice analogy. I'll have to remember that.
> I never really believed that the cost of Linux is a selling point, it's a
> nice bonus once they have decided on Linux, but I don't think that is what
> will draw them to it. Even in here not too many talk about staying with
> Linux because it is free, it is much more the case that people stay with
> Linux because it is so good that they wouldn't dream of going back to MS
> Win, unless they had no choice.
>
> Haven't we had posts not too long ago of the type 'I tried Vista...yuk',
> 'had to use a XP ..... yuk'. Once you are a Linux person and have spent a
> little while on it, it is very hard to go backwards to MS Win.
>
> So I for one think that is it fair play for us to use the 'free' word, but I
> don't think we should push it as the first bullet point.
Absolutely. It also depends on the person. To some people, price is important.
To others, price can be a deterrent. As time goes by, PCs evolve to take more
control of the users. People can see that. It'll boost Linux adoption while
urging governments (like the British one) to push Windows on the desktop.
They want authority. The rule of one. Robber barons and oligarchy. wait and
watch.
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~~ Best of wishes
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