On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 17:13, Georg Jakob wrote:
I know that this sounds like open source speak, but I think that's exactly why we *need* the FSF - to talk about freedom, to create awareness. If you talk about freedom in a sales presentation, you'll be laughed out of business quicker than you can say "GNU".
I've recently given a lite presentation of Free Software and GNU/Linux on my company. It's an insider job *grin* but they've really like the freedom concept.
There was one naysayer, though, who said: well, but if anyone can make changes, how can it be compatible? I just said, anyone can make changes, but that doesn't mean they will be integrated in the project. You have the source, you change your copy. If you submit a patch and it gets approved by the authors, it may get in the code.
I hope he understood that.
Hugs,