First shot fired in the Battle with the Penguin?

Stan Witkowski Stan-PAleLrdANoqY+5vIsb+96wC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Sat Dec 24 10:48:52 UTC 2005


At 02:35 AM 12/24/05 -0500, Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Most of the population know nothing about FOSS even in 2005.
...... [ aside: hey guys, NOTE that I edited this, out of consideration
......          for you, instead of letting 100+ lines trail ON AND ON...
......          because I was too dumb to learn how to edit them, hmmm? ]
>Back on Software Freedom Day 2005 I helped out at a stall at a computer 
>show in which we explained FOSS & Linux.  A good deal of the attendees 
>(who have much greater computer knowledge than the general population) had 
>only the vaguest notion about what Linux was and most had no idea about 
>FOSS at all.



God, how depressing!!

Stan.

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