[BadVista Advocate] Ubuntu? Well OT.

Lam YongXian news at adolflam.com
Tue May 1 14:31:34 EDT 2007


> 2007/5/2, Lam YongXian <news at adolflam.com>:
>>The former one
>> will give us more people, but whats the use when they dun understand the
>> ultimate ideal of free software? It would just make us another group of
>> jealous people on Microsoft(R) success.
>>
>
> However, if the motive for people to leave M$ is DRM, then we have won
> half of the battle.
>
> I have been reading all this posts, but I think it is going to be very
> ineffective if we are to hard-sell free and only free software. There
> are two things people are fighting for at the moment, DRM and closed
> software, they are 2 different things, and I think it is better to
> focus on DRM at the moment, everyone hates DRM when they finds out
> about it, but the same people may not hate closed software... we must
> first enlighten people about DRM, then promote free software as a
> secondary area.
>
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Yes, I am not ruling out the step by step strategy in doing this. We just
have to be careful not to lose our goal of free software (look at OSI).
And while in the process of doing so, not to mislead people on the goal.

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