* Jelle Hermsen jelle@fsfe.org [2010-11-01 14:25:48 +0100]:
I recently joined the fellowship and yesterday I wrote a blog post on my new FSFE blog titled: Advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong (http://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2010/10/31/advocacy-doesnt-work-if-you-tell-some... ).
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My post states that it's best to not talk about proprietary software too much when you're trying to advocate free software. Pointing out the problems of the proprietary software somebody uses might actually lead them to dig there heels in, preventing them to be susceptible to any of your good arguments.
Yes, this is a good aproach. But sometimes it is also difficult not to mention the problems of non-free software.
For example when you want to explain that Free Software is not leading to service monopolies, it is difficult not to mention that non-free software is leading towards monopolies. I think you can explain such things, but than you have to be careful about the tone.
Regards, Matthias