[Gllug] Open source == 'Popular Computing'

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, April 2, 2009 17:18, John Edwards wrote:
> 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 ?
>

Perhaps there was a section on "Unpopular Computing", being full of
Microsoft manuals.

Salsaman.


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