Promoting Linux before release of vista

[Gregory D Hough]

James Knott wrote:
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> 
>>I think the selling point is this:
>>
>>With Linux, you never have to reboot in the middle of doing something
>>because your computer slowed down.
I wouldn't go so far as to use the word never. It is like putting 
something down to bring one's own thing up higher and justifying it as 
being absolute. "My shell will hang sometimes but I usually just do 
this". Then procede with a two finger, two second CTRL-C gesture. Give 
them a feeling of shack-n-awe, a first impression that it can be that 
simple using Linux. No one likes waiting while their machines reboot, or 
the anxiety associated with the fact that what they were working on 
might be lost or corrupted.
> 
> 
> I currently provide Windows support to users in a very large company.
> On occasion, while working with the users about some problem they're
> experiencing  with Windows, I might mention how their problem simply
> doesn't happen with Linux.
"...On occasion...I might mention..." Please excuse my assumption that 
this implies seldom. I know it is difficult and requires a great deal of 
patience for that opening line or circumstance when we can speak 
confidently, and with authority about all what we do with our Linuxes.
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.

If I were to borrow quotes I seen im LJ March 2006...They Said It...

"Fear, because what is free is never fully appreciated." --STEVE 
GILMORE, blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmore/?p=189

"Remember, Linux is a species, and we aren't fighting anyone here. We 
are merely evolving around everyone else, until they aren't left 
standing because the whole ecosystem changed without them realizing it." 
--GREG KROAH-HARTMAN, LINUX-ELITISTS

And perhaps a piece of another somewhat related thread says it best...

"a) The hunter entered the clearing slowly so the native did not attack 
him. They looked at each other for a while. The hunter made a large 
waving gesture which he hoped to be friendly. The native did not react. 
Having no common language the two eventually shared a meal over the camp 
fire which the hunter helped light with matches. Later the native 
exchanged a bear skin for a box of matches, then they went their ways.

a) Natives are not always hostile. Trade is possible. Gains can be 
made." --PETER, Re: Security of Open Source ASP Implementations

I doubt very much that Peter's native-n-hunter scenario was a lesson in 
threading a space needle with the help of can-eye-ball-ism. No! But 
reverberations of such nonsense can and will be felt. That kind of ____ 
is damaging to any group trying to promote anything good and wholesome. 
That path is going to lead a "Dolly-Heard" headlong over a cliff.


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