On Friday 18 June 2004 14:23, you wrote: > I would like to turn your attention to some recent > news items that are available in a printable format > from Whatsup. If you are engaged in providing Linux > (and FLOSS in general) products and/or services, you > may use such information as references. I did > emphasize selling point for FLOSS in those articles. > As the guys in Redmond have shown, marketing is a good > way to promote your business. Let's do FLOSS > marketing, while adhering to true facts and sincere > messages as a way to differentiate ourselves. > > The provided links are just a sample and I do not > intend to send repeated notices. You may get past and > future links from the Whatsup portal. I am publishing > relevant items also in LinMagazine, though I am not > aware of an easy way to create a nice printout from > the information over there. > > Sorry that the articles are in Hebrew, but all contain > links to the English sources (mostly sites not related > to Linux). > > http://www.whatsup.org.il/print.php?sid=3157 > http://www.whatsup.org.il/print.php?sid=3156 > http://www.whatsup.org.il/print.php?sid=3152 > http://www.whatsup.org.il/print.php?sid=3149
You can add also "know the facts" of Hamakor, but still it will not help. I try for over a year now to convinced computer stores, to sell computers with linux, and i see alot of unhappy faces from the store owner. Yearstoday a friend of mine heard the first time the word linux, and could not understand how it is connected to ms-windows, and what does it mean, that person is not a computer person, and all he needs is a way to open web sites, chat with people, and write letters, he could not car less what is the os, he does not understand what an os is really all about, and he will never know, because it does not interset him. In order to make a move to linux from ms-windows we must make *ALL* the public that does not know the diffrence between driver to regular softweare, to know that linux is more secure, support hebrew, and does not hard to work with, they need to know that while ms-windows you can copy, but it's illigeal while linux is legeal to copy and speard... they need to know that "word" is just a word proccessor and there are more similar tools out there... and people needs to know that standarts is not a one side thing, and not only one company decides what is standart, but a whole community does that. but for doing that, we must first teach them a thing or two about computers, and not to accept people that "goods in computer" if a kid have alot of games in his/her computer. so the best way to start support in linux is to kids in schools, and on any other places that they use computers in public places. people needs to start working with it, like it was everything else, and say "why does my windows version can't do that, and find out that it's not windows, but LINUX" and they could have it with a finger tips.. At least thats my idea :) Ido -- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
