[Ambassadors] Need a few points..

[Siddharth Upmanyu]

well the point is already been laid down... Piracy is bad and cannot be
encouraged... even for the stubborn people who take it for granted..., we
cannot bend out stand to fit them but a way must be followed to teach them
why using OSS is good...

Look at Fedora Core 6 it is undoubtably the best OS i have ever used beyond
WinXP Vista or Mac... but if somebody says pirated copies of these OSs are
easy and are a treat i don't believe....

Regards
Siddharth



On 3/17/07, Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail <mohd.izhar.firdaus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/17/07, Siddharth Upmanyu <siddharth at techbugs.org> wrote:
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > While initiating the GNU Project, RMS wrote:
> >
> > "From:   RMS%MIT-OZ at mit-eddie
> > Newsgroups:  net.unix-wizards,net.usoft
> > Subject:  new UNIX  implementation
> > Date:  Tue, 27-Sep-83  12:35:59 EST
> > Organization: MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA ....
> >
> > "I consider that  the golden rule requires that if I  like a program I
> > must  share it  with  other people  who  like it.   I  cannot in  good
> > conscience  sign  a  nondisclosure  agreement or  a  software  license
> > agreement.
> >
> > So  that  I  can  continue  to  use  computers  without  violating  my
> > principles, I have  decided to put together a  sufficient body of free
> > software so that I will be able to get along without any software that
> > is not free.
> >
> > ..."
>
> Using this point is quite hard to convince normal users and developers
> who has been taught in MS style development in their education  ..
>
> I'm also interested to know some good points on how to convince these
> type of people .. Its easy to convince those with high computer
> interest ..  but others .. its quite hard for me ..
>
> In some countries (mine included) , piracy is all over the place and
> people took it for granted .. preaching about free software, it
> benefit to them, and licensing etc doesnt give much effect .. they get
> lots of commercial softwares for nearly free in the first place, and
> some even have something like this in their mindset -> "Why would i
> bother to learn to use free software/linux while i can get commercial
> apps nearly free too .. licensing?? whats that?? like i care... nobody
> will put lawsuit against me anyway"
>
> [snip]
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> regards
> Hikaru
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