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

[Ori Idan]

I think we should keep it welcome to Linux as people already know firefox
and some of them know Open Office.
We should introduce Linux.
If we make it welcome to FOSS we actually encourage people to keep on using
proprietary software (windows).

-- 
Ori Idan


On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:

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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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