Re: Actor/author Stephen Fry endorses free software
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 78.86.139.134]
on September 04, 2008 08:22 PM
"If they'd spend half as much time improving their software as thinking of new and improved ways to get the word out about how "great and wonderful" free software is, more people would use it."
I don't know about you, but personally I wouldn't like to use an operating system written by a group of marketing and PR people who don't know how to code, let alone code well. I say let the programmers do the coding, which would mean a load of marketing and PR people would be sitting around idle. How about putting their actual talents to good use, doing marketing exactly like this?
I'm sure trolls such as yourself would be amongst the first to criticise a film written by Linus Torvalds, or Eric Raymond's debut album, since such things would probably be terrible. The whole point is that they don't need to make those things, as others with the necessary skills can do it instead. That's why a community effort is more productive than a solitary one. It's not all about code, since there's always a call for more documentation, more icons and themes, more ideas, more testers and more publicity. Well this is the latter.
I think this video will be a very good marketing tool, although I feel the no-derivitaves license used may hinder this, for example in the future it might be useful to use parts such as the plumbing analogy, but leave out the 25th birthday parts (which will then be irrelevant), but the license does not permit this without seeking permission directly. I understand that the concepts and implementations of Free Culture are still developing, and that in Stallman's view an opinion piece can legitimately be no-derivitaves licensed, but by placing slightly more trust in the community and allowing derivitaves I feel this could be an even more useful contribution than it already is.
A big Thank You to all of those involved in producing this video, and of course to all those who have helped GNU to become the diverse, useful, innovative and in some areas industry leading platform it is today. Long may it continue, and Happy Birthday :)
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Re: Actor/author Stephen Fry endorses free software
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 78.86.139.134] on September 04, 2008 08:22 PMI don't know about you, but personally I wouldn't like to use an operating system written by a group of marketing and PR people who don't know how to code, let alone code well. I say let the programmers do the coding, which would mean a load of marketing and PR people would be sitting around idle. How about putting their actual talents to good use, doing marketing exactly like this?
I'm sure trolls such as yourself would be amongst the first to criticise a film written by Linus Torvalds, or Eric Raymond's debut album, since such things would probably be terrible. The whole point is that they don't need to make those things, as others with the necessary skills can do it instead. That's why a community effort is more productive than a solitary one. It's not all about code, since there's always a call for more documentation, more icons and themes, more ideas, more testers and more publicity. Well this is the latter.
I think this video will be a very good marketing tool, although I feel the no-derivitaves license used may hinder this, for example in the future it might be useful to use parts such as the plumbing analogy, but leave out the 25th birthday parts (which will then be irrelevant), but the license does not permit this without seeking permission directly. I understand that the concepts and implementations of Free Culture are still developing, and that in Stallman's view an opinion piece can legitimately be no-derivitaves licensed, but by placing slightly more trust in the community and allowing derivitaves I feel this could be an even more useful contribution than it already is.
A big Thank You to all of those involved in producing this video, and of course to all those who have helped GNU to become the diverse, useful, innovative and in some areas industry leading platform it is today. Long may it continue, and Happy Birthday :)
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