That's where the "preaching" part comes in. May or may not work, depends on your oratory skill, and how you present it.

Because hey, there is no such thing as free marketing, especially not as in free beer, and for that you can forget anything about "quality" and "what people want". But word of mouth is the closest you'll get.

In the end, effectiveness of it still boils down to the same thing, understanding non techie people, agreed.

Edit:
And I could care of kitchen appliances, regarding the conditions of production, and quality of use (proprietary maintenance and all), aso, but I cannot find any forum on the topic

but I see what you mean : )

actually making a tablet that moves tablets alltogether from disruptive cliché into sellable mass market items isn't called disruptive.

Most people I know hate to be preached at...

My point was that most people that are clueless toward maemo/linux/foss are probably just not interested. Not stupid people that can be 'educated' with a page of pdf and 5 minutes of their time. God forbid you point them toward a wiki about GNUs somewhere.

So you can preach all you want, but they may not want to hear you at all... unless you can somehow align your interests with them. Yep, there goes another bizspeak catchphrase that the consultants love.

so..... whats an n9?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N9

My money is on "a road connecting Brussels and Ostend, passing Aalst, Ghent, Eeklo and Bruges".

all along I thought it was a motorbike

Moreover, there are about a million and three things more worthy to be preached about, like:

- Don't eat meat.
- Don't waste energy (i.e. turn off those devices already!)
- Don't produce toxic waste (i.e. don't even buy those devices!)
- Don't buy products manufactured in countries not respecting human rights (i.e. most technical gadgets)
- Donate.
- Volunteer.
- Don't consume processed sugars.
- Don't stay inside browsing the web, it's not good for you in the long run!

I do not think that a majority of Open Source zealots appreciates this kind of preaching.

In the end we decide that we need to compromise to live meaningful and satisfying lives, so we pick our battles carefully.

"Don't use devices with closed source drivers" is not going to be high on most people's list of battles to fight, and that is for rather good reasons.

déjà vu?

was looking for infos about LG's smart phones (by lack of any useful information about LG & MeeGo...) and came across a bit of history...
Bacelona Mobile World Congress (February) 2009;
LG & m$ just inked an agreement following which LG would have up to 50 (smart-)phones running m$ OS in 2012...

of course, history doesn't repeat itself, it only stutters, but...

Average costumer doesn't give a crap about open source or not, as long as "it just works"
And i hope N9 IS for average users, because else there is no future for maemo. It will be another n900, i don't want to spend my money (and im sure it will cost a lot) to have a device NOKIA doesn't care about.

its not the blind attitude, its the proven fact and truth. I must say it is a brilliant gadget, but only a fool will take it after they've used symbian, maemo or android, power users know that iCrap has no use to them, unless you want a useless fart app to get yourself satisfied....
cant you see, they arent doing any innovative thing, its all about developers, they dont have anything useful..they rely on apps and nothing else..heck you cant even use properly for calling someone, coz "you're holding it wrong"

on a serious note, i'd wait months for something rather than being told that im wrong.