The Complexity of Selling Libre Software and Freedom in General
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When it's explained simply; it seems to make more sense to emotive thinking.
An example:
"[Manufacturer] is [telling you that/acting like] you cannot choose apps outside of their [store/collection/catalog]; even if you, as an adult, would trust that app or need it to save your own sanity, health or life."
When I tell an Apple user that; they suck their teeth and try to make [noises/excuses] but in the end they do relent and admit that does suck. Not only can they not refute it logically, they cannot refute it emotionally.
When I show them how I've riced out the experience of my Android Smartphone and how I can use my phone rapidly without encumbrance because I have everything at my fingertips in a workflow that comes native to me....they get jealous!
Sadly where I lose them, is where I tell them all the work I put in to achieve it. I have to break the news to them that going to the store and buying a phone with freedoms just like mine isn't possible. Perhaps that's where we need to attack these things.
Basically; we need to make freedom look sexy. There will invariably be things we can do with our freed devices and software systems that they cannot hope to achieve. We have to endeavor to make that difference as pronounced and noticeable as possible. When we do; that's when FLOSS communities swell and grow. When Linux got good at gaming with Proton; the numbers swelled. Linux became "sexy" because it could game. If we give users something they can have over their peers who don't seek freedom respecting software, they will flock to it in droves...and the companies will be driven into the poorhouse for failing to meet the user demands.
