...is extremely difficult. A lot of people have some absurd sense of brand loyalty... especially Joe Average. If they've never heard of it before, why would they want to try it. I've gone around setting the default browser to Mozilla, but as soon as it opens, it gets shut down and the user opens IE. Getting people to use something that is "free as in speech" is like getting people to actually excercise their free speech... or worse yet... getting them to go out and vote. I'm afraid that's how absurd our society is. But it's true, if you bundle open source applications on a McWindows system, and people have no other choice, they'll learn to use GIMP, OOo, Moz, etc. So this is a nice attempt at exposing people. Honestly, people freak out when i give presentations in Linux using StarOffice... only because they have no idea what that means.
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...is extremely difficult. A lot of people have some absurd sense of brand loyalty... especially Joe Average. If they've never heard of it before, why would they want to try it. I've gone around setting the default browser to Mozilla, but as soon as it opens, it gets shut down and the user opens IE. Getting people to use something that is "free as in speech" is like getting people to actually excercise their free speech... or worse yet... getting them to go out and vote. I'm afraid that's how absurd our society is. But it's true, if you bundle open source applications on a McWindows system, and people have no other choice, they'll learn to use GIMP, OOo, Moz, etc. So this is a nice attempt at exposing people. Honestly, people freak out when i give presentations in Linux using StarOffice ... only because they have no idea what that means.