As we all know, there are plenty of open source equivalents to expensive softwares out there but why are people still paying so much to proprietry softwares? I feel that one main reason is familiarity.
Majority of computer users would still rather pay to have the familiar interface of the programs they have been using for a long time.
This project is about improving instruction for open source software. Perhaps we should modify manuals to aide people in transiting from proprietries to FOSS. But how?
Consider the equivalents Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. Photoshop isn't cheap but it still widely used. Maybe just knowing that a free software is equivalent is not enough for people to move and readapt into the FOSS camp. Maybe we should go one step deeper by not only introducing software equivalents, but also introducing tool equivalents within the free software. One nice organised table of tool equivalent for each pair of software equivalent would really get users over the net when they switch over to free programs.
Just a thought.
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