[dundee] Draft of article for Dundee Voluntary Action

[Colin Brough]

> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:42, Colin Brough wrote:
> > At our January meeting, when Angie from webtrust talked us through
> > opportunities for helping voluntary organisations, I (foolishly?)
> > offered to do an article for the DVA newsletter. A draft is here
> > (emphasise draft!!).
> > 
> > 	http://www.colinbrough.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/TLUGarticle.pdf
> > 
> > Comments welcome.
> 
> I think you need to rephrase the "alternative to windows" bit, it makes
> us sound like MacOS or OS/2 or some other ToyOS.
> 
> Perhaps something like Linux is a Unix like operating system and Windows
> killer!, ok you can maybe leave that last bit off or rephrase it ;) but
> the "Linux is a Unix like operating system" is a key concept.

It has technical accuracy (and underpins the "inherently secure"), but
does it communicate anything to the intended audience? I'm not sure it
does... All it says is "an alternative to Windows with a funny name",
no?

Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk