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Open Source Advocacy The Right Way

Posted by Zonk on from the for-those-of-you-about-to-rant-we-salute-you dept.

[vmlinuz] writes "With a rapid succession of people moving towards Open Source, advocacy and evangelism is increasingly important in helping organizations to move over. The O'Reilly Network has begun publishing a series of articles about Open Source by Jono Bacon that teaches how to approach advocacy sensibly and more productively." From the article: "Although Aristotle developed his message many, many years ago, the concept of optimizing how we talk to people has developed further throughout history. From Aristotle to Heraclitus to Friedrich Nietzsche to Helen Keller to George Bernard Shaw, many people have advocated new thinking in times of rabid opposition."

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  1. You mean... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being a geek that hasn't showered in a week, constantly rambling about "Evil Micro$oft" isn't a good way to advocate OSS?

    What about yelling First Post????

  2. Linux Evangelism by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

    *Leans over podium*
    Brethern, it is the time of the Apocalypse!
    Stand up and be saved!
    *Thumps loudly on "Linux in a Nutshell"*
    Who is ready to receive saaaaalvation?!

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    You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
    1. Re:Linux Evangelism by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
      Who is ready to receive saaaaalvation?!

      Let me be the first radical fundamentalist to ask whether you are some heathen using an IDE or one of the vi chosen?

      Please separate yourselves into camps of worthy and unclean. ;-)

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      A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  3. GASP! by Dorsai65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean that calmly and rationally pointing out the benefits of something accomplishes more that foaming-at-the-mouth, in-your-face, mine-is-the-One-True-Way evangelism?

    Nah, can't be. If things really worked that way, just think of all the time thats been wasted...

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    --- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...