The desktop wars

[David Fletcher]

On Monday 19 June 2006 04:32, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>
> We need advertising!!! Most people I've spoken to have never heard of
> linux (or suse or fedora or debian etc.). If granny knew that linux
> could bring life back into her WinME system, she would know to buy
> redhat or suse or anything not windows and $400!

This is the correspondence I had with TV Channel 5 in the UK:-

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Fletcher [mailto:dave at fletchersweb.net] 
Sent: 04 March 2005 21:25
To: Customer Services
Subject: Gadget show

That was an excellent piece in "The Gadget Show" this evening, about
open 
source software.

I've posted details on the Fedora Linux mailing list.

Let's have more of the same good stuff, please.

Regards,

Dave Fletcher

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I can't remember the exact content of the program, but they were certainly 
showing off The Gimp, and a couple of other things.

I thought WOW the message is going out, but I've never seen anything else like 
it since.

Pity.


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