We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible
– We collaborate inside proprietary environments<p>Why is that? Why have users chosen those environments? <i>Assume they are rational beings, and get at the heart of it.</i> Ask: "How can we address the actual user needs while supporting our goals?"<p>– Many Linux and FOSS geeks today use Linux only professionally<p>Same answer as above.<p>– We're not modeling our values<p>WHY? (Hint: "the use of nonfree" is not, and has never been a primary human motivator <i>even for many people who "get it"</i>.)<p>etctera.<p>Finally, regarding the below... only one of these, the first, even tangentially touches on <i>the user experience</i>.  There's an implied expectation of so much FOSS advocacy which reduces to "by <i>writing and using</i> our software, you will be wearing a hairshirt for the cause".  This mindset is guaranteed to fail in front of users, who are by and large "non-believers".<p><pre><code>     "Having real-time chat is absolutely essential to the advancement of free software."
    "We're the resistance now." "We need to create mass movement."
    "Volunteer to write free and open code, to participate in communities."
    "If you didn't live the history, learn from those who did."
    "If you did learn from history, teach those who need to know it. Respectfully."
    "Be patient. Remember that the tortoise won not only because it was patient, but because it ignored insult, ridicule and dismissal."
    "Model your values. Use free software and hardware."
    "Remember always how 'the rights to copy, share, modify, redistribute and improve software' are fundamental rights that matter to people."
    "Work to convince developers that their software freedom matters."</code></pre>