"...What means promoting Free Software through Free Culture? It means we need to start advertising the collaboration tools in our software. We have to enable and encourage artists to share their work with other artists and with the world - just as our programmers do..."
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sepreece
16 years 39 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago
Writing and logic need help
The idea that we need to concentrate on promoting software freedom by promoting other exercises in collaborative freedom is interesting, but the note doesn't really sell it very well.
People generally choose software based on features because they're looking for a tool that supports the job to which they intend to apply the tool. A free-as-in-speech screwdriver will not help you drive a nail into a board.
You're not going to convince most people to use free software unless the available free software meets their needs. Analogies to Wikipedia may be useful in convincing software people to participate in creating FLOSS software, but there's no logical connection to convincing users to use free software - if it's not something they can contribute to, they're not going to see the opportunity to contribute as compelling.