[sclug] Post: See you later Linux

[John Kennedy]

On Friday 26 Sep 2008 23:04:40 mskadu at gmail.com wrote:
> > > After all, the techie crowd was never Linux's target audience!
> >
> >*really*?
> >
> > Have you read Linus' post[1] to comp.os.minix announcing Linux?  Does
> > "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
> > their own device drivers?" sound like targeting non-techies?
>
> Nice try ;-)
>
> But arent LUG members encouraged to distribute live-cds to just about
> anyone? Also, Isnt pushing adoption to the non-techie user one of it's
> advocates key objectives?
>
> - Mayuresh
>
<snip>

You make it sound like LUG's are a cult, meant to force as many people to 
convert as we can.
Although there are some people who are like that, things like that do happen 
everywhere and I hate it when I see it. 
I do not push Linux on anyone. Anyone who knows me knows that I have nothing 
but the utmost distain for Micro$oft as a company and all their (so called) 
software. I will happily show anyone how to use Linux if asked (some have) 
and will help revert back to Window$ if Linux does not work for them. I do, 
usually, carry at least a Live CD/DVD whether it be Knoppix or a distro such 
as openSUSE or Kubuntu (as a personal preference, I do not like GNOME). I 
will only give the disc away if someone asks.
To me the biggest objective is to show people that there are alternatives to 
M$ software, especially Window$ and that the options are not as difficult as 
people may think.
John



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