On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 23:33:51 PM -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > How about we create a guide for people/teams to lobby their local > governments for open formats, free software, and Ubuntu adoption?
I am always interested to link to such guides from the resources section of Digifreedom.net, please keep me posted even off list. Just a few notes: - speaking of free formats, there already is something, ideas at least, at http://opendocumentfellowship.com - lobbying for open formats is always safe and 100% OK, if nothing else because even proprietary sw vendors can adopt them and this just destroys (if done well) any accusation or political pressure they may try based on "communism", personal attacks, etc... while removing the only real weapons they have to keep their monopolies - lobbying for free software... of course it's great, but it must be done with balance. "Use Only FOSS tomorrow" or anything similar is simply not realistic and usually backfires. - lobbying Ubuntu adoption... You actually mean lobbying a government to adopt ONE specific sw "product" instead of all other ones??? If yes, this wouldn't fly, I'm afraid. How would it be different (perception-wise, of course) than lobbying for Windows Vista? And why Ubuntu and not Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandrake, you name it? Convincing governments to adopt and mandate by law really fair *practices*, without specifying "product names", is a different thing, of course. Far, far easier to do. A guide that doesn't _promote_ at all any distro above any other has many more possibilities to succeed or at least be widely adopted, IMO. Marco -- Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
