On Thursday, 14 April 2016 3:30 AM, Nemanja Milosevic
<nmilosev(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
As discussed in our EMEA meeting, I will be invited (most likely) to a Microsoft
conference here in Belgrade, Serbia (1000+ developers are expected) to hold a
presentation about .NET developer toolchain on Linux. It will be a great
opportunity to promote Fedora and FOSS. The Fedora part I got covered, and I
know what I will talk about. Mostly about how Fedora plays nice with many
developer tools, how developer friendly in general it is and how it's
fantastic with the frequency of tools updates. Also how nicely it integrates
into some of the already existing Microsoft Services (like Azure)
Cool!
However the second part about open source software - I'm stumped.
Does
anyone here have any talking points or prior presentations experience on trying
to "sell" the idea of FOSS to someone who is only making proprietary
software? It's a pretty hard topic and I would love to hear some of people
with greater experience in promoting the FOSS way of thinking than myself.
I think we need not hard sell greatness of FOSS and/or its method anymore.
With majority of the internet powered by FOSS, thousands of people making
their living by working on(or around) FOSS and billions of devices running
Linux, that point is proved beyond doubt. Secondly, it could easily digress
into us(FOSS) Vs them(proprietary) territory, which is kind of futile IMO.
Considering both ways of development are here to stay, maybe it'll help
to talk about how we could benefit each other. How it is important
to have open standards and protocols so that there is greater
interoperability between tools. Proprietary software is known to use
FOSS, but without due attribution or against its licensing terms. How that
is not good for the community. Security is an important aspect, how two
parties could collaborate to have better CVE repository etc.
(just few points that come to mind)
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