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On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 12:33:17PM +0100, Ben Goodger wrote: > No, but pushing it in their faces is counterproductive. So is spending a day > on useless conferences when we could all be coding. Are you talking about the Expo? I don't think things like that are useless, I think actually they serve a great purpose. They're us standing up and saying "We're a community. We built a free operating system, a free kernel, we give you freedom. Freedom for free society" - business people can understand freedom. They understand the nature of a free market - yet, this is one of the reasons why 'open source' was invented, so they could put a nicer, marketing savvy label on things. It didn't really work out like that, and instead takes everyone's attentions away from free software at a time when we're beginning to need their attention more and more, with the influx of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) and software patents that look to take away more freedoms. > No computer is, and GNU is certainly unsuited to windows refugees who think > that windows is the only way and everything else should replicate it. As has > been said before, GNU/Linux is not Windows sans spyware, viruses etc. Until > people accept this, it will never be ready for the mass market in the sense > that Windows is. I'm not sure that no computer is ready. In fact, I'd say computers like the Mac have been ready for a long long time. I can't comment on Windows, as I don't use it. -- Matt Lee Chief Webmaster, GNU Project - http://www.gnu.org/ - Free as in Freedom Free Software Foundation - Free Software, Free Society - http://www.fsf.org/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html