Introducing Linux to Joe Average

eco2geek writes "The local "alternative newspaper" is running a cover story titled 'The Rebel Alliance: An unlikely army of hacker hippies, geek visionaries, idealistic teachers and corporate giants is making Portland ground zero of a digital revolution.' I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call Portland 'ground zero' of anything, but the article does give the average reader a good introduction to what Linux is, why it's important, and some of the politics surrounding it. (The article also mentions 'the frenetic Slashdot.org.' :-)"

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Re:Farmers using Linux?

[dcw3]

The sad part is the national government is in bed with Microsoft.

Wow, you need to take off the tin-foil had buddy.

I've been working for 26 years on govt. contracts using just about every flavor of *NIX you can think of. There's no great love for Richmond any more than there is for other large companies. Now if you're talking about lobbists being in bed with govt...that's an entirely different story.

Whole article on one page

[shfted!]

Using a little hack called page five of a four page story:

http://www.willametteweek.com/story.php?story=4764 &page=5