Give grandma the right reasons to use Ubuntu

[niel]

On Friday 07 December 2007 10.18.53 M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Fri, December 7, 2007 7:35 am, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> > M. Fioretti wrote:
> >> First of all, I would recommend to not install (ie force on them) any
> >> Gnu/Linux distro if those people are already comfortable with
> >> Windows.
> >
> > I would agree with you but:
>
> ...
>
> > So, people will never know the existence of free software if you dont
> > push them a bit, just a bit.
>
> I am not saying that we must not push people a bit, all the contrary.
>
> I am saying that we MUST push them, now more than ever, but that it
> is simply useless and counterproductive to "push" today's non
> programmers with the attitude and slogans of the FSF. See "The seven
> things we're tired of hearing from SW hackers" or "A Free Software
> manifesto
> for the rest of us" in the Opinions section of Digifreedom.net
>
> Also, I repeat what I wrote in the original message:
>
> When it comes to goals, never mind converting grandma to Ubuntu or any
> other Gnu/Linux distro: today it is much, much more important for the
> Free Software cause, if you do all you can to make her write to her
> representatives at any level to demand the adoption of OpenDocument
> in Public Administration. Today, that is the one single move that
> will make more good to FOSS than increasing tenfold the number of
> Gnu/Linux home (or business) users.
>
> As for HOW to do it, see the slogan in my signature: this is the
> approach I recommend, and I wrote the book just to give FOSS advocates
> a tool to do things this way. It is absolutely useless and
> counterproductive to explain how beautiful it is to have the freedom
> to create, share and improve source code to people who simply do
> NOT give a damn about programming.
>
> Marco Fioretti
> --
> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on
> how software is used *around* you:    http://digifreedom.net/node/84

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