The desktop wars

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

On 6/20/06, Steven Pasternak <stevenp500 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> We aren't in the 1990's anymore. Firefox/Thunderbird are what many
> people use under windows, so there isn't really much transition there.

But no one knows it.  My friends son, 14 years old and required to
take a laptop to school, was under the impresion that no one uses
linux, that it can't do anything useful, and can't be relied upon.
The reasoning that he and his peers use is that all their laptops came
with windows installed and that the school only uses windows xp.

Now while I have been able to show this kid a few things, the fact
remains that by the time he finishes high school he will have spent 5
years in that environment, and so will thousands of others around my
contry and many many more around the world.

> They are starting. You can buy RHEL4 from dell.com if you dig deep
> enough. Linux kills in the server market, but you are right. The biggies
> do need to promote linux a little more that burying it in the shop
> section of their websites.

Yes, that is what is needed.

-- 
Rob