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<font size="-1" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi Federico!<br>
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Thank you for your comments. This is what I am trying to say:</font><font
size="-1" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Yes to a negative
campaign, but in a POLITE and POSITIVE way. <br>
</font><font size="-1" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The link
"Why Love FS" is interesting.<br>
KR<br>
Ioli<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/7/2017 1:36 πμ, Federico Bruni
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1501108582.2324.1@smtp.autistici.org">
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Il giorno mer 26 lug 2017 alle 13:28, Ioli Papadopoulou
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:i.papadopoulou@sophimail.com"><i.papadopoulou@sophimail.com></a> ha scritto:
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<blockquote type="cite">Excellent topic; thank you for bringing it
up.
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Avoiding negative language will help us become BETTER
ambassadors of FOSS. Negative language creates negative feelings
about us!
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We can simply take lessons from other industries facing the same
problem. For example, let's see the language of small "natural
cosmetics" when they try to fight against "synthetic" dominant
competitors. They keep on pointing out what they do better, to
the Customers benefit: "no parabens, no additives, no chemicals,
only natural ingredients" etc. They do not name or imply their
competitor. They just repeat what is "better for you" and "does
not harm you".
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So, to come back to software: we could use strong laconic
statements, such as: "Debian sends no telemetry reports". It is
true, everybody understands it and it is not aggressive.
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Hi Ioli
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It looks like your opinion is the opposite of Daniel's opinion.
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He's saying that we, as free software activists, should do _more_
negative campaigning. Why? Because a positive attitude, like
caring for the privacy of the users, may be perceived as more
valuable if people knew that proprietary software/services behave
very bad in this regard.
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I agree with Daniel and I don't think that negative campaigning
means negative language.
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The american FSF has done lot of negative campaigning, in a polite
and positive way (as when you provide alternatives).
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<blockquote type="cite">Persistence and patience are necessary,
too. People need time to contemplate and then change; they
cannot change overnight.
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Is it possible to make a "collection" of nice, positive
statements about FOSS and then distribute them to all members? I
thing that some of us, including me, would need some help, in
"expressing in a positive way"!
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Something like this? :-)
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.en.html">https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.en.html</a>
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