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Promoting FOSS with Analogies: Ford vs BK
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| Now Open Source is entirely the opposite way.
| It very truly follows the BK mentality of
| "Have it your way." You can share it,
| customize it, tweak, hack, and crack it, you
| can look at the source code (aka
| accountability) and so much more. The only
| restrictions that a FOSS project might have
| are either technical (some technical
| limitation prevents you from doing something
| you want to) or legal (IE, the law prevents
| you from doing certain things). Otherwise,
| you're free to do whatever, however,
| whenever, etc, etc, you want.
|
| Now when using this analogy, most people
| won't understand the technical or legal
| limitations that may exist naturally in the
| software (IE, the language it's written in
| may not support doing what you want, or what
| you're asking for is nearly impossible to
| code) unless they're complete tech heads. So
| I recommend keeping the comparisons to the
| bare minimum. Find something they like to
| do, or want to do, and use that as your base
| when using this analogy in the promotion of
| FOSS.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/promoting_foss_with_analogies_ford_vs_bk/
Related:
Microsoft invades the car
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| Microsoft really doesn't want to take over the world you know,
| just your desktop, living room, workplace, car, plane, tricycle,
| government, oh yeah and they want to be in charge of how much
| filling goes into Twinkies too.
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http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/12/26/microsoft-invades-the-car/
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