[Infopoint] more Interest gathering - a change

[David Goodwin]

alan c wrote:
> I mostly display monthly at my very local computer fair, and over more 
> than a year, interest has gathered a little momentum.
> 
> However,  just recently there has been a quickening of interest from 
> otherwise non techie computer users.

Do you have any ideas why this might be the case? Is it because you've 
become a regular fixture at computer fairs?


> At today's event someone came up and said how delighted he was that the 
> (last event's CD) worked so well (Kubuntu I think). A couple of others 
> said they had seen media coverage. One spent a long time asking and 
> watching about what was an operating system and what the interest was 
> about - this was someone who used a PC but never touched it technically, 
> a friend did that. A grey haired man took a CD because of interest,  and 
> also his 16 year old nephew (?) said he would rather be dead than use 
> ms.....

We used to come across people who'd say similar things ('stuff microsoft 
etc') - but then never heard again from them :-/

thanks
David.
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David Goodwin

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