[Cialug] Goobuntu

[chris129 at cs.iastate.edu]

You kidding, it takes AOL 5 years to get people to upgrade to another
release...

They'd all want to switch, but 99.995% of them wouldn't actually do it.

Quoting "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>:

> If a "Google Linux" desktop worked like linspire does Everyone on AOL would
> probably want to switch.  Simply brainless.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hilton [mailto:chris129 at cs.iastate.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:24 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Goobuntu
> 
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060131-6087.html
> 
> It's already been denied.  I imagine it's the OS they use internally.
> There's 
> a whole nightmare in shipping something like an OS that I imagine Google 
> wants to avoid.  That nightmare is called:  Idiot users and the call centers
> 
> they think they need.
> 
> As much as I'd love to see Google push Linux I doubt they believe they can
> do 
> much for it.  It'd only be marginally easier to tell someone google linux 
> rocks verse saying ubuntu rocks.  Seeing really is believing; of course 
> getting people to see is always hard.  And I haven't seen Google make any 
> incredible marketing campaigns of their own yet (although they're helpful to
> 
> other companies to the same end).
> 
> On Tuesday 31 January 2006 16:30, David Champion wrote:
> > Google doesn't have an OS. Google does have an OS. Make up your mind 
> > already!
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
> >
> > -dc
> >
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