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Tox: how would you convince them to use this?
skreutzer: By the benefits?
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That's exactly the point where you didn't listen to Hitch.
I've met enough people being just of the cut Hitch speaks of:
learn resistant homo habilis or lernresistentes Gewohnheitstier if you prefer.
The only authors potentially willing to learn about good tools might be scientific ones because they heavily need a stable toolset for their work. Their work turns to shitpaper w/o a good reference apparatus so a lot of them happily switched from text editors aimed at authors
(like NotaBene) to *TeX.
As for making people switch OSs because of software... Why?
Have you considered that they might use more than one program?
Where do you help if your tool isn't all systems available and so a potential switcher cannot try and use it while waiting for an alternative for a different piece of software s/he uses too?
If you truly want to promote free software you should do so.
If you want to pull people to Linux... Don't.
Linux isn't for people wanting a free windows.
Linux is for people wanting Linux - the other ones won't switch their thinking about how an OS should operate.
P.S.: If Linus has no problem with offering his stuff for multiple OSes nonfree ones included:
http://subsurface.hohndel.org/de
Why should you? More Catholic than the Pope eh?