"Carsten Agger" agger@c.dk wrote: [...]
- 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 ...
I think that's more thoughtlessness and ignorance of the free software alternatives, like when people use gmail instead of a free software webmail.
We could help ourselves here more, by building better directories of free software, reviews and associated articles. The FSF/UNESCO one is an opportunity that we're missing: I know the official directory needs to be tightly controlled to avoid embarrasment to its sponsors, but the data could be made freely-available (not the current FDL - we need to promote and interchange this data more widely than that allows) along with changelogs and easier feedback APIs, and the software that drives the database could be published as free software.
The best avenue for this sort of thing looks to me to be DOAP http://usefulinc.com/doap/ but I've been as bad as everyone else at heading in that direction so far.
Regards,