First shot fired in the Battle with the Penguin?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 02:35:38AM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> Most of the population know nothing about FOSS even in 2005.  I ran into 
> someone I used to know recently (we were seated next to each other on a 
> flight).  Among other things the topic of Linux and FOSS came up.  He had 
> heard of neither.  He is an engineer who runs a company that makes 
> specialised components for various industries.  For example, he pointed 
> out several parts of the 737 we were in that his company had made for 
> Boeing.

For some people, a computer is just a tool, and they don't care how it
works.  This is probably often the correct attitude to have.

> He's an intelligent man running a technical company and he had not heard 
> of Linux or FOSS.

Maybe he never had a reason to care what was on the machine as long as
someone else made sure it did what he needed.

Linux is found in many embedded systems, that most users (correctly)
don't even consider to be a computer.  It just does its job like a good
appliance should.

Len Sorensen
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