Wording of Legal Issues myth

[Thierry Sayegh]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 8/20/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>>are you sure?.
> 
> 
> Are we sure we are we sympathetic?  I waffle on the answer to that
> personally. Sometimes I'm personally very sympathetic to the plight of
> users who want to start on the path but have practical constraints
> that keep them using a perfectly open set of technologies. Sometimes I
> just want to tell everyone to suck it up and to show some backbone and
> choose to give up their oh-so-very-important proprietary encoded
> entertainment and media. Really depends on the ratio of caffiene to
> alcohol in my bloodstream.
> 
> -jef
> 
You need to consider the user that is willing to move towards these open
sets of technology but does not have the knowledge as-yet.
If you block him/her from using his/her current files, you will drive
the said user away. where is good will? How do you convert them?
It's not conversion if you give them a box and tell them they won't be
able to use these gazillions of music files they love so much.
Giving them the ability to use these 'old' files and to create new ones
with open toolsets, this is the challenge.

Thierry