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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28/03/11 12:08, Neil Winchurst wrote: > There is much discussion on the list about getting people and > businesses to move over to open source. Now I am fine with that. > Being a pensioner my main reason for spreading the word is to help > some of our older citizens to save some money. I suspect that many > of them are just using a computer for some email and a bit of > browsing. I can't see the fun in paying lots of money to MS for that. > > However when I hear that so many businesses, schools etc are stuck > in their ways and have no interest in moving across my immediate > reaction is 'Fine. Let them get on with it. Their loss.' Meanwhile I > will still continue saving money and having fun with my computer > using Linux. > > But there seems to be quite a strong desire among list members to > really work hard at this. I must be missing something here. If > people really don't want to know should we care? > > Anyone have any comments please? > > Neil Winchurst Short answer.. If you care about your tax money being wasted then, yes you should care.. If you care about people knowing that there are other ways rather than what's force fed to you then yes you should care.. If you do not want to live in a dictatorship then yes, you should care.. Personally, I will deal with people running windows, but educate them to the error of their ways and the options.. I will be there for them the next time it goes wrong, and charge them for it.. oh, and remind them once again that there is another way.. This approach HAS worked many times.. :-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2QmrEACgkQz3Av8JKgzxS6PwCggOy0kxg74Qd6tHU13Z9oL8Hy bpsAnjZLlZDotN/2y0n0xQUWKqO3bEEx =4uiH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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