On 07/03/12 22:26, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: > On Mar 7, 2012 7:01 PM, "alan c" <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: >> What I took from this exchange was that the retail goldfish bowl we >> all actually live in, is one of deep immersion. There is hardly >> anywhere we can go, or that I can think of, which does not have only >> retail air to breathe. There is 'no such thing as a free lunch' is >> mostly true in the real world, although exceptionally, not with most >> of GNU/Linux. There is a price, though, but for end users all they >> have to do is trust in the social generosity of developers and teams. >> But trust in strangers is not something that comes easy in a world >> full of scams. >> >> However, I do like the idea of more marketing. >> -- >> alan cocks > > Whenever I've been faced with trying to explain to people about how the > whole open source/Free Software thing works, I usually end up using the St. > John's Ambulance as an example of people's generosity and helping for no > cost, and using footballers playing charity matches for examples of how > someone doing something for no cost doesn't automatically mean that the > result of their efforts is of a poorer quality than that of someone being > paid for their work. > > People seem to understand these two analogies quite well. > > Grant
Nice one! Thanks I will be using those. -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
