[Gllug] Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

[Chris Bell]

On Tue 06 Nov, Peter Childs wrote:

> 
> We as a user group have a lot of work to do to bring linux to the people. We
> need to get into the press, We need to put a less geekey image on. We need
> real market penetration, just because the stats are wrong does not mean we
> can fix them by destroying them out of hand, we need to get more users so
> that Linux is hmm 50% and starts to really worry Microsoft. Currently linux
> is small cheese.
> Now If tesco were selling there linux machines in every tesco store in the
> country of the shelf that would make a difference, they are not.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

   I have given away plenty of Knoppix CDs and DVDs, but I suspect that very
few ever get used. I see much more interest when I say that it can be used
to recover files from a crashed M$, while the planetarium style star
displays have interested a few people enough to get them to take a look.
   I think that the standard M$ user is oversaturated with unbelievable
hype, only just able to cope with their system, and petrified with the
thought of having to wrestle with any other (difficult?) system.

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Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house.

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