[Cialug] OT : Monday night OS release

[Nathan Stien]

On 1/25/07, Adk <adk at 52761.com> wrote:
> Would it be kewl to hand out Ubuntu cds in front of BestLie to the
> 'unenlightened'?

Anyone who is enough of an extreme MS fanboy to be paying full price
for Vista at a retail outlet is unlikely to be swayed by a livecd.
Someone in that position clearly doesn't mind forking out unnecessary
money in order to relinquish freedoms (vis-a-vis DRM among other
things), so what argument could we offer?  To me, the primary
advantages of GNU/Linux are that it is free-as-in-beer and
free-as-in-speech, of which Vista is neither.

I also agree with those who regard this as mostly a non-event.

- Nathan

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