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Open Source Advocacy The Right Way
[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."
Piss off! You don't know what you're talking about.
TROLL!!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
The only people who act more like rabid idiots than Linux/OSS advocates are Mac zealots. They are their own worst enemy, not to mention a bunch of bald face liars. With Linux/OSS there are valid technical merits and advantages that exist. With Macs this is not the case and has not been the case in well over a decade if not longer. Yet the true believers still persist in trying to con anyone who will listen into pouring their money in a hole in the ground by buying a Mac, and acting like petulant brats towards anyone who won't listen.
That being said, opposing something in the technology world because of the culture surrounding it, and not because of any concrete technical reason, is simply irrational. Linux and OSS are ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency, both of which inevitably lead to more $$$$$. Shunning them because some of the people who are behind them are unpalatable, just doesn't make sense.
Lee
Muslim community leaders warn of backlash from tomorrow morning's terrorist attack.
just click start>run then type "cmd" (no quotes)
/usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/Advocacy
then
less
(yes the windows part is in jest)