[dundee] Draft of article for Dundee Voluntary Action

[Colin Brough]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:40:05PM +0000, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 21:10, Colin Brough wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> It communicates we know what we are talking about. I prefer not to dumb
> down, thats what windows has done.

That's a fair point; its a tightrope, enough technical stuff to sound
like you know what you are talking about, little enough not to switch
folk off and dismiss it as for techies only!

> > does... All it says is "an alternative to Windows with a funny name",
> > no?
> 
> heh.. probably better than Freax....

Quite!!

> A potential what is Linux url
> 
> 	http://www.li.org/whatislinux.php

Ta.

Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk