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software and the community not because they like the philosophy.  Even
a user friendly user interface takes time to learn and change usually
comes with resistance.  Users need a motivation to change that they
can get when they recognize the benefits and experience them directly
rather then being presented in an abstract way.

Target your audience - if you are speaking to arty types then present
the multi-media compatibilities, if speaking to science folks then
focus on the large amount of scientific software available.  Don't
just talk about this software - show them.

Just my two cents.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Danny Piccirillo
<danny.piccirillo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Spreading the ideals of FOSS is a bit difficult when we have to explain h=
ow
> our tools respect freedom and why peer-review and our methods create bett=
er
> software. I propose that we put together a solid list of Free Software (O=
pen
> Source) promises that people can expect from FOSS tools. That is, a list =
of
> things that would never happen with FOSS with examples of where it has
> happened with major proprietary software. Example: DRM
> Thoughts?
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