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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] "A finer grained division of possible target
From:       Tom Chance <tom () acrewoods ! net>
Date:       2005-11-22 11:17:20
Message-ID: 200511221117.21078.tom () acrewoods ! net
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Ahoy,

Mihnea, can you check how you reply to emails? It wasn't clear what text was 
mine and what was your reply :/

On Monday 21 Nov 2005 22:19, Mihnea Capraru wrote:
> Which brings me to my point: it's not freedom that will draw people to
> KDE, it's KDE that will draw people to freedom.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this :) I think it will be 
different for different people. For my part I've converted people to KDE for 
both reasons, but more usually for the freedom aspect. Not least because even 
the most modern Linux distro still makes life a bit of a pain in the arse for 
desktop users sometimes :-)

Also most people really don't care what software they use, just so long as it 
does the job. If they're a techie or an IT manager they might be more 
interested in the technology but then they will also be especially interested 
in what really makes KDE different to Windows and MacOS: freedom. All those 
other users are most likely to be converted to KDE by friends, a good reason 
why we need something like SpreadKDE (see www.spreadkde.org).

IMO, both for pragmatic and "idealistic" reasons we should push the freedom  
angle as well as the technology/features angles.


> As for the individual reasons of promoting KDE, I am confident that those
> who promote it because it's good are perfectly compatible with those who
> promote it because it's free.

Compatible, yes, but not "perfectly compatible" :-) If GNOME became by far the 
more realistic free desktop proposal I'd probably go and promote them 
instead! The fact that the choice between the two is pretty subjective right 
now, and that I prefer KDE and want to give something back, keeps me on this 
list rather than gnome-marketing ;-)

IMO it's really important to remember that most people have better things to 
think about and participate in than a software project! (though that's not to 
knock those who do participate, quite the opposite...)

Regards,
Tom

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