From: Han Boetes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > The people who they are addressing are bussiness, and they think > in terms of gaining money and loosing money. > > Open Source Software is a concept they will not understand easily > since they don't have a concept of interacting with people without > a gain or loss perspective. > > It is very important that we educate people about what the choice > of open source software means. > > In their terms: You have to invest more _time_ into learning how > to use a more complex and better tool. And also to help it improve > by providing feed-back. > > And it's the job of the ssh-salesmen to convince people that they > have to invest more money into an easier to use tool. That's the > main attraction of their concept: ease of use.
And here I've just not found OpenSSH to ever be difficult to use. Maybe we can say it's SSH Corp's salemen's job to sell snake oil and back it with FUD, the typical process for swaying people away from OSS to commercial software. DS
