Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Hi all, > > I was out this evening with some people from my lab, and my supervisor > brought his new girlfriend along (I didn't even know my supervisor had a > social life, he's in the lab a lot!). It turns out that his girlfriend > works for the BBC and she is part of a team which a planning a > documentary about Bill Gates. They want to present a balanced opinion of > Microsoft and I was very happy to present my "balanced" opinion (I'd had > a couple of pints), anyway I mentioned slashdot.org as a website for her > to find some anti-microsoft sentiment, and talked about Linux and Ubuntu > and mentioned about the BBC iPlayer and its incompatibility with Linux. > She said that the BBC would support Macs 'soon', but didn't know > anything about Linux. > > Anyway, I thought that this would be a good opportunity for > advertisement of Ubuntu, and I wonder if anyone has any ideas for > sources I could pass on to her via my supervisor. Of course I think she > would get a bit tired of a barrage of anti-microsoft propoganda. However > I think it might be good to pass on information about FOSS and FUD and > other acronyms she might not know about. > > Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed > to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly > writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know > that much myself)?
There is a fascinating item from 2002 containing some grass roots arguments for open source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peruvian_opensource_nightmare/ Equally as powerful, if not more so is Eben Moglen's lecture at Edinburgh 2007. I was particularly struck by the concept of having to buy a sufficient quantity of mathematics to complete my everyday activities..... http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007StreamingVideo384kbits These are (long and) full of gold, I trust the researcher will find interest in them. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
