[Gllug] Open source == 'Popular Computing'

[John Edwards]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:07:33PM +0100, James Laver wrote:
> I was in Foyles this afternoon and some guy asked at the counter for  
> 'Open source books' and he was pointed to the 'Popular computing'  
> section. Imagine my surprise at finding it's full of books about  
> openoffice and linux and such.
> 
> I know this follows on from the previous thread about linux having  
> arrived, but seriously, when did it become 'popular computing'?

I would guess that the other sections were probably computer
science, or school/college/uni text books.

"Popular computing" = actually being used ?


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