Re: [Fsfe-uk] Why FS is a Good Thing

[Imran Ghory]

On 10 Mar 2002, Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 20:55, Imran Ghory wrote:
> > The problem isn't really in convincing people who use linux though, the
> > majority of people who we need to explain about free software to are
> > Windows users, and there are hardly any pieces of free software for
> > windows in wide spread use. 
> 
> The examples I gave weren't really with GNU/Linux users (or *BSD, or
> other Unix) in mind; they were with Windows users in mind. Hence the
> example of Evolution: don't underestimate the importance of Outlook to
> people, it's a killer app. 

I think it might be better if we gave people examples that they were more
familiar with (maybe a seperate sheet giving examples of major free
software ?).

If I were listing examples of free software to a windows user, the apps
I think would be most recognizable are,

Quake 1/2 (Didn't go the traditional OSS way, but the source code for both
are now GPL)

Morpheus 2 (Yet unreleased, but a lot of people will reconize the name)

WinJab (Jabber client, not that well known but popularity growing) 

MiKTEX (Probably unknown outside the Windows Maths community, but an
important piece of software nevertheless)

I'm sure there is another major GPL program for windows, but I can't seem
to remember what is was atm.

Imran