[Cialug] OT : Monday night OS release

Jeff Davis jdavis at geolearning.com
Thu Jan 25 15:10:53 CST 2007


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Indeed...
I think there would be better response by handing
out liveCDs to the people (who were) in line for a PS3 or Wii.

- -Jeff

Nathan Stien wrote:
> 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
> 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFFuRzdUVPJ6ufy+vIRAr8CAJ9Z8u/VLPV7aqd3hjLavQdyOfOr6ACcChE3
nUUEOSqCtmKh4zHTocc6hYA=
=eGm3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


More information about the Cialug mailing list