Hi all, I had an idea for running a small GNU publicity campaign in parallel to MS's Vista launches. Their business launch is planned for Nov 30th, and their general public launch is planned for Jan 30th, AFAICT.
When journalists write about partisan topics, they often like to give an opposing view in the last paragraph or two. So lets give them an opposing view that they can draw from. And we'll also, hopefully, get the idea out to the public that there are alternatives, and there are issues of freedom which Vista create. When telling MS users that there is an option, it would be better if we could actually point to something. gNewSense is the obvious choice because recommending any other distro would send the message that binary blobs and proprietary software make for a "better" distro. I'm going to be travelling constantly between now and Nov 30th, so I can't work on anything bigger than a press release. If others want to do more, then run with it. For Jan 30th, it would be good to organise something bigger. Just an idea. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
