Promoting Linux before release of vista

[John Van Ostrand]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:17 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote
> 
> > >What has the group got planned to promote GNU/Linux before MS release 
> > >vista,  as that is going to get a massive publicity push for vista 
> > >Just thoujght we should do something similar at around the time.
> > 
> > Personally, I'm not sure if it's useful to put a lot of energy into 
> > something that is simply reactive.
> 
>   I think that we have a golden opprtunity to pick up cheap, almost-new
> computers.  We can make it a two-pronged attack...
> 
>   1) Be "kinder and gentler" to the environment.  Don't throw away your
> almost new computer just because it doesn't run Vista in its "full glory".
> It's probably fully capable of running linux.  We'll take it off your
> hands and use it for ourselves.
> 
>   2) What?  You're unhappy about that?  Tell you what, we'll get linux
> running on your machine, and you can have the benefits.

Be careful. Some may interpret that as saying Linux is lightweight in
features. Use the word "bloated" and "vista" together in a sentence and
that might put both OSes in the correct light.

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