Idea: "Welcome to Open Source" instead of "Welcome to Linux" this year

[geoffrey mendelson]

>
> So what do you think? Am I crazy or am I on to something? Two people  
> I talked
> with liked the idea, and a different one had some doubts.

I think as long as you present it in a positive way, i.e. the benefits  
of FOSS and the FOSS philosophy, without getting into a FOSS/non FOSS  
debate, and the benefits of using FOSS without denigrating non FOSS  
software, etc.

I think you will find that people are much more familar with FOSS than  
you think. For example, it seems that all the public schools in  
Jerusalem use FireFox and many use OO, without any fanfare, articles  
in Ynet, etc, it "just happened". The State of Israel paid to localize  
the Windows version of OO, and a lot of people use it without even  
knowing that it is FOSS, and so on.

I think that anything beyond that should be a talk on its own. There  
is no reason to get the average person confused with CLI's, VMS, etc.

Geoff.
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