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Re: [PLUG] Discusion on Linux4Austin Project
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Linux will never be used by the masses until it comes pre-installed and
available through the retail chains that people normally use. When a
consumer can get a PC with Linux for $299. or the same hardware with
Windows for $499. there will be converts.
Getting M$ to stop using unfair and/or illegal trade practices to
prevent linux from being pre-loaded by Dell, HP, Compaq, Lenovo, etc..
is the key.
Micro$oft execs have stated that they believe people won't upgrade
their PC OS, so it's advantageous for each new OS upgrade they release
to require a hardware upgrade, which will then facilitate the OS
purchase.
Installing Linux on older Windows PCs that are so full of spyware that
they have been slowed to a crawl is a great idea. Convincing people in
our throw-away society to continue using their old PC is going to be
tough, when they can get a new one for a few hundred $.
The Linux revolution needs to start in the workplace. Then it'll
trickle down to home users who want what they have at work also at home.
-Bill
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http://www.billhance.com/
"If extinction is happening at a greater rate now,
why is our supply of fossil fuels decreasing?"
-Rep. Steve Pearce, R-NM, June 16, 2005
at a hearing on the Endangered Species Act
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