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  1. Re:If you REALLY want to help by Krigl · · Score: 1 · on Ulteo Shows Linux-Windows Crossover Potential

    "Hello, may I interest you in the gospel and source code of our Lord, the Penguin Almighty and Linus Torvalds his only son?"

    Linking Linux with Jehova's Witnesses in the minds of non-geek crowd doesn't seem as a way to go. After all, this has been already tested on the geek crowd.
    Also this has been here before, the guy called it Linux social experiment (I'd link his article but the domain has expired, so here's a "mirror"), read it, it's really enlightening.
    If you want to get all "must get Linux to the masses", try maybe along these lines, even if you don't like it. I know, I know, you'll probably scream and cry that your little world won't...no wait, that's different delusion, this is about "Linux is great and able to win by it's own virtues". I'm not denying it but that works for serious gentlemen in suits who count TCO and pragmatically decide to use Linux or something else but if you're swinging banana for Bloody Fuckin' User, you'll need different approach. Maybe it's not this but it surely ain't standing in front of subway with Watchpenguin. Any small retailer, offering polished preinstalled Linux desktop significantly cheaper than Windows, without making it big thing, just "yeah, 'tis cheaper, sure there's manual inside, for $$$ you can have our tech set up network for you but it's quite automatic, yeah, support's free first month", makes more evangelical work than hundred annoying people in the streets.

    Bottom line: Wanna really spread free soft, open source, open formats, whatever? Whenever you buy CD or DVD, or dump TV stream, encode it to .ogg, .mkv, .flac and share it on the net/upload to RapidShare, download some user friendly Linux distros and seed them on torrents under names ending with Enterprise, commercial or some price tag ($300 and more, after all, you do value Linux more than Vista, don't you?). And when you find someone selling preinstalled Linux, buy it, or divert someone that direction.

  2. Since Taco is obviously stoned today by spacefrog · · Score: 0, Redundant · on The REAL Reason We Use Linux

    Story Link

  3. missing article? by BerkeleyDude · · Score: 0, Redundant · on The REAL Reason We Use Linux

    Ok, this is Slashdot, but still...

    http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html

  4. It would be good... by Port1080 · · Score: 5, Informative · on The REAL Reason We Use Linux

    If the editors didn't strip away the story link from the article when they posted it, yes?

  5. Link to Article? by stavros-59 · · Score: 1 · on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free

    Is that this blog post? http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/02/why-linux-doesnt-spread-curse-of-being.html