First shot fired in the Battle with the Penguin?

[James Knott]

Stan Witkowski wrote:
> 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!!

I often mention Linux to others and fortunately many of my coworkers use
Linux and/or OpenOffice.
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