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Sneaking Open Source Software Through the Front Door

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the son-why-does-my-browser-have-tabs? dept.

the_1000th_Monkey writes "LWN daily pointed out this new project today. It aims to be 'a compilation of high quality open source software (OSS) [that] will be made available as a CD distribution in order to help promote OSS to users of Windows and MacOS.' There are hopes that this would make it easier to encourage universities, OEMS, and your parents/friends to take advantage of this software and eventually bring them over to a completely free system on their own time. Help for suggestions/discussion is being sought." Newsforge is carrying a slightly more in-depth look at this project. Anyone care to design some attractive, downloadable CD-graphic images?

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  1. Free Beer too? by Xopl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OSS and free like beer too?

  2. Re:Microsoft is proof that what you write is nonse by sheldon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    HA! If anything your post is a troll.

    Microsoft's products have consistently offered more for less to the consumer. The company clearly proves my point that it is the value and quality of the software that dominates in the market... not the marketing.

    If this were not true, Microsoft would never have failures because it could throw it's marketing budget down and dominate. But we have seen numerous failures over the years... IE2, Bob, Win CE 1.0, Money and so forth. In many cases those failures turned into canceled product lines. In other cases they came back as a new version which learned from the mistakes and complaints of the critics.

    The best product ALWAYS wins in the marketplace, and I'd like to see you argue otherwise. So far you troll, er I mean argument, is unconvincing and doesn't lot address the large number of exceptions.