Unfortunate, but true...
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| sbergman27 Dec 03, 2005 6:07 AM EDT |
"One thing that I have learned over the years that most people are not interested in ideology or politics, especially when it comes to software. A user does not care whether an application is programmed by a bunch of hobbyists, scientists or a corporation and they do not care if an application follows some international standard." How different my life (and the world) would be if the above quote from the article were not so true. |
| dinotrac Dec 03, 2005 10:43 AM EDT |
Steve -- I don't know that the world is so irrational. We can't -- and don't -- care about everything in our world. We care about things that we understand to matter to us. Unfortunately, many in the free software community -- and yes, I know I'm slinging stereotypes -- are a bit, ummm, insular. Unwilling or unable to view free software in terms of concrete benefits to non-believers, they are equally unable to sell the benefits to non-believers. I have the same problem, and technical incompetence probably leaves me better equipped to commiserates with ordinary users than most. |
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