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[Marc]

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On 10/29/07, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 12:49:34 PM -0700, Les (hlhowell at pacbell.net) wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 17:42 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > >
> > > Considering the audience you described, I'll also dare to suggest
> > > that, before going to the talk, you read my "Seven Things we're
> > > tired of hearing from software hackers" at
> > > http://digifreedom.net/node/56 : while it's not about Linux
> > > specifically, it may help you to not spend too much time
> > > presenting to your audience arguments that are really NO relevant
> > > for them.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >                     Marco Fioretti
> > Only one comment, Marco,
> >       Actually more people program than ever before.
>
> Strictly speaking, yes, but are they meaningful? Of course, more
> people "program" now than in the preindustrial era, it couldn't be
> different today. Going by your definition, every cell phone user is a
> programmer.
>
> But this doesn't mean that they see at all the underlying issues and
> care in the slightest about them. This is still a world and age where
> most VCRs clocks still blink at 12:00. Where people who have been
> using personal computers for many years still tell you "to save the
> file, click on that small TV picture up there" or, to see a landscape
> picture in portrait mode during a slideshow, turn their laptop
> sideways (yes, these are both real things that I or my wife witnessed
> personally).
>
> So the limits I mention still apply: the overwhelming majority of
> those "programmers" simply doesn't really understand what they are
> doing, no matter how cool and savy they may look, and they'll never
> sync in on the usual pro-FOSS arguments (the "seven things") that were
> enough to convert software users of the 80's.
>
> Actually, I also fear that this complacency that I've already noticed
> in many FOSS activists may be one of the biggest obstacles and dangers
> in making FOSS really mainstream: "hey, look at how many computers and
> other processors (clocks, TVs, cell phones) all the folks around me
> have and use daily: it's obvious that we're all geeks by now and that
> this makes triumph of FOSS unavoidable".
>
> Ciao,
>         Marco
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