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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. Why write this?</A></H2>
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<P>I read over all the other advocacy howtos for Linux that I
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could find (I've listed them in the resource section at the end).
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They were almost all addressed to convincing end users (either
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business or personal) that Linux could meet their needs on a
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day-to-day basis. That's a very useful thing to do, but it
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wasn't what I was looking for. Only the Linux Advocacy Project
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came close to what I was looking for, and it didn't quite cover
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what I wanted. I wanted something that would help me approach
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organizations making software for other platforms and convince
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them to port their works to Linux. Since I couldn't find any
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howto concerning that I decided to write one.
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<P>In this howto I'll cover how to approach software companies
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and what arguments may be most effective in convincing them to
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port their programs to Linux. I won't talk about trying to
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convince them to release their Linux ports under open source
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licenses. While that might be a good idea, I think these things
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should be done in small steps. Advocating a port to another OS
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is much more likely to meet with interest than advocating what
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the company may perceive as "giving away" product, or advocating
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a radical change in their basic development model.
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