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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:27 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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> Tempers flare over ... preinstalled linux distros? |
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> The fact is, Linux needs some evangelists right now. I for one would |
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> love to see microsoft's market saturation drop some, and I don't think |
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> I have to explain how much that would help the open source commutity, |
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> the internet, and the whole IT industry worldwide. At the risk of |
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> being melodramatic, I insist that the stranglehold over PCs that |
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> windows holds must end. |
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Microsoft themselves have done a lot to aid in the cause to end |
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Microsoft's rule. Windows Vista is a flop. I've heard that MS Office |
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'07 is too. People are looking for an alternate solution. Mac has |
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begun advertising again. Word of mouth is our best marketing tool now. |
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Sure there are tons of Linux websites out there, but Microsoft's primary |
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advantage is that people think they're the only OS out there. If you |
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tell people about Linux, at least a few of them will research it and |
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might make the switch... |
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> If only people would continue to build momentum for linux as a viable |
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> commodity OS, then we could move to a point where people would be |
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> comfortable with it in their offices too, and only then will the |
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> hardware industry really have to respond in kind. |
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> The neat computers in the world today deserver Linux, and let's face |
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> it, we all deserve to be gurus on 90% of computers and not 5%. |
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> Sure, I don't want to by a ubuntu install either, but still, I argue |
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> that it's a big step in a good direction. I hope y'all agree with |
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> that. |
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> Death to Tyrants! Long live open source! Long live Linux! |
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> Sincerely, Dan Farrell. |
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