On 9/25/07, Max Moritz Sievers mms@fsfe.org wrote:
Alexander Braun wrote:
I'd like to contribute a further review on the term "freedom" to your mail. In my opinion it is not as subordinate as the interviewer on zdnet put it in his questions.
Do you think many of ZDNet's readers see themselves as part of some movement -- anti-poverty, or anti-war, or for some other form of social change? Hint: This interview is made by ZNET -- the website of Z Communications: The Spirit of Resistance Lives.
Exactly - anyway, thanks for the response; I more or less agree myself - I asked the questiona because I am asked them frequently by people who are more or less activist on other fronts but are so used to an environment of proprietary software (Windows, Office, Photoshop, which have market shares around 90+ %) and wanted to hear some other angles to it ... but the truth is, that the people inclined to use free software are mainly technically inclined people - probably because less technically inclined people are easily discouraged, and some things (like installing a printer in some versions of GNU/Linux) seem unreasonably difficult to some people; so I try to argue, not that they necessarily should go through a technical challenge they couldn't always manage themselves without support, but that yes, it does make a difference ...
but because of this I think more widespread adoption of free software will come through adoption of GNU/Linux in the workplaces and in schools - which is, of course, also starting to happen (though not much here in Denmark, which is still very much a Microsoft country). - Hide quoted text -
best regards, Carsten
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