Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack
by richm31415 on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:20PM
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It can be, yes. For someone who is a strong believer in and advocate of FOSS, who makes her/his livelihood developing FOSS for a FOSS software company, to be forced to use proprietary solutions where there are reasonable FOSS alternatives can be very disheartening, demoralizing, and even humiliating.
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Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack
by Melatonic on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:26PM
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I am not sure still why it is humiliating specifically - disheartening sure, demoralizing makes sense. But why would it be humiliating if you are not the person pushing that the paid / non FLOSS app be used in the first place?
Isn't this also a good chance to evangelize an alternative to whomever you are speaking with?
Re:Collaborate with kindness: Etiquette tips in Slack
by ask_b123 on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:24PM
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I also thought of that as being a chance to 'evangelize' FLOSS alternatives.
The first thing I actually thought of was this set of verses talking about evangelizing in a somewhat similar context: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9...