On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:56:11 -0600 Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand who says I'm not making any noise about it? 9 out of > 10 of the people that I've spoken to about this latest FUD attack are > Windows users at work, or at home, or both. But that doesn't mean they > are 'apologists for the beast,' it just means they don't yet know how > to use anything else. The operative word is "yet" since the running > score on my end is 32 "conversions" since the release of Mandrake 8.2. > Since I'm a dilettante, not an "IT Professional" in any sense, I'd say > that's not too bad. If each of the people that have listened to me > convince one more and so on ,the "little people" like me are going to > start demanding to know about a 'better way' for their kids at school > etc. On that note: My son (11th grade) is "being exposed" by a teacher > running the computer lab at the school he attends that is a die-hard > 'Linuxer.' The group at his last 'report' to me (totally unofficial > since it isn't on the curriculum yet) that joins those two for their > extra-curricular computer activities now includes 14 students that > found out what was happening from my son and expressed curiosity and > interest. > > Plus two teachers that seem to want to learn. Funny you should mention schools. I just read this article about 2 people from Portland that are making linux available to schools. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/4216/1/ Bill
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