On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:06:01 -0400, "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> said: > On 8/24/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What do we have to say to her? > > Honestly.. I'll tell her that perhaps linux is not right for her... > and to check out other for-pay linux distributions which include > proprietary technology instead of being completely open source. Moving > to completely open source solutions has an opportunity cost, you > either value the benefits of open source over the costs or you > don't... and that determination comes down to personal situations. > I'd also tell her that crossing any operating system boundary has a > portability price associated with. The price is higher when you > crossing from proprietary to an open vendor. And while there are some > technical solution which help.. there is no universal solution to the > problem..either for proprietary binary portability or proprietary > content portability. I think this is a model worth looking at - CodeWeavers' "Truth in Advertising: Real Dirt": http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/truth_in_advertising/the_real_dirt/ They say straight out in a simple language "What works well" *and* "What sort of works" and "What doesn't work" As Jeff says, we can't provide binary compatibility. Maybe we can make a plus point of being absolutely straight about these kinds of things and differentiating Fedora from those who say "Linux is ready for the desktop", without talking about the trade-offs that users must make. -- Stuart Ellis stuart@xxxxxxxx Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ GPG key ID: 7098ABEA GPG key fingerprint: 68B0 E291 FB19 C845 E60E 9569 292E E365 7098 ABEA -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
