GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store

alexanderb writes "Remember GNU's Windows 8 launch trick or treat in October, where Free Software Foundation activists handed out gratis copies of the free (as in freedom) system Trisquel GNU/Linux? Well, GNU returned for a Microsoft store's 'Tech for Tots' session on December 20th in Boston, MA. Like in October, the activists (accompanied by a gnu) handed out gratis copies of Trisquel GNU/Linux — a free alternative to Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8."

Comments

And then you ask them about support.

[Anonymous Coward]

And they say...pay somebody else???

Re:Ignoring the problem.

[Austerity Empowers]

Then you need to give up on the Microsoft store, and focus on corporate consumers and IT admins, because those are the people who keep MS alive. MS at the consumer level is a joke, no one WANTS their product, it's just the path of least resistance. Get it out of the corporation and your task is complete, but IT admins are well and truly sold on ActiveDirectory and their ability to micromanage settings on user machines at an individual basis. Sometimes I can't argue with them either, as users really are retarded sometimes.

Re:Ignoring the problem.

[Eirenarch]

I once had to write 40 pages in Open Office. The next day I ordered MS Office. I'd like to apologize to friends and family for polluting their machines with Open Office. I swear it looked like a good idea before I actually used it.