[clug] Software Freedom Day

[Alex Satrapa]

On 22/06/2009, at 12:07 , jm wrote:

> I second these comment. To understand why read,
>
> Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
> Robert B. Cialdini

Or watch Legally Blonde:

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Proof) said:
> The concept of "Social Proof" and the fundamental attribution error  
> can be easily exploited by persuading (or paying) attractive women  
> to display (or at least fake) public interest in a man. Other people  
> will attribute the women's behavior as due to the man's character  
> and are unlikely to consider that they are interested in him due to  
> the actual reasons (external gain). In one scene of the movie  
> Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon feigns heartbreak from a clearly  
> unattractive male in the presence of two other women, causing the  
> women to instantly change their behavior towards him from  
> indifference to highly attracted.

So we should stack the computer fair with Linux users who all exclaim,  
"Oh wow! A Ubuntu CD! This stuff's great!" and pick up their disk to  
disappear into the crowd?

I like your thinking.
Alex

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