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Re: [LUG] Linux roadshow,



On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:29:09AM +0100, Brough, Tom wrote:
> >I warrant these people aren't linux experts. 
> linux). People call me an expert because they dont understand how little I
> know, so they assume I am an expert.

Expert was the wrong word. Competent is better.

> The point (i think) is that this company is prepared to go and sell linux (
> them. One would hope that schools would not just sign on the dotted line (
> like they did / (still do ?) with Microsoft products).

Seeing that anyone can tout "Free Software", there will be charlatans.

People who sell Free software based solutions without the 'support' part
will do a lot of harm.

> good balanced advice are more likely to sign up without too may questions
> (what ever they sign up for). We (the open source community) need to address
> this issue head on.

People who sell the solution must support it. Not us here on this LUG.

Regards,
-Kai

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