[sclug] Microsoft recruiting in Reading Uni

[Chris Aitken]

> - Perhaps most importantly, one of the major barriers to more 
> widespread Open Source and Linux adoption is the perception (note -
> **perception**) that it's still the plaything of hackers with 
> limited social skills and no conception of the "real" world 
> of business.  This sort of thing plays into the hands of 
> anyone wishing to reinforce that perception.  I'm not 
> suggesting that it would happen, but just imagine if you or 
> someone else did go along to barrack the event, and M$'s PR 
> department got hold of the news..

Certainly.

One of the biggest issues that linux advocacy has is people putting down the
opposition.

And as a tool for the masses, windows has done more than linux.

And as said above - people assume that linux is not actually used in the
real world (but we know it lives on most web/dns/email servers, and a large
proportion of business servers).

The TLDP has a paper about linux advocacy [1]. Its worth reading.

Chris

[1]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Advoca
cy.html


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