[Cialug] OT : Monday night OS release

[Jeff Davis]

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Indeed...
I think there would be better response by handing
out liveCDs to the people (who were) in line for a PS3 or Wii.

- -Jeff

Nathan Stien wrote:
> On 1/25/07, Adk <adk at 52761.com> wrote:
>> Would it be kewl to hand out Ubuntu cds in front of BestLie to the
>> 'unenlightened'?
> 
> Anyone who is enough of an extreme MS fanboy to be paying full price
> for Vista at a retail outlet is unlikely to be swayed by a livecd.
> Someone in that position clearly doesn't mind forking out unnecessary
> money in order to relinquish freedoms (vis-a-vis DRM among other
> things), so what argument could we offer?  To me, the primary
> advantages of GNU/Linux are that it is free-as-in-beer and
> free-as-in-speech, of which Vista is neither.
> 
> I also agree with those who regard this as mostly a non-event.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
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