[YLUG] Advocacy

[Pete Fenelon]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Anthony Simpson wrote:
> What does the list think about this?
> Tone

Low-profile FOSS advocacy probably works best - "there's a
better/faster/more reliable way of solving your problem and it just
happens to be free". The way to migrate people off closed solutions
should be entirely based around cost/benefit and functionality.

Most high-profile FOSS advocacy probably hurts the cause, because it's
intensely politicised and delivered by deeply unattractive characters -
RMS on the left, ESR on the right, for example. Ideology is unpalatable
at the best of times, and inevitably carries a whiff of crank-ism.

pete
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