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[News] Free Software Analogy Involving Ford

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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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