On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM, pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [about introducing friends to Free software] > > > > > The worry is more that a simple suggestion to use FOSS may prompt his > > friend to do nothing at all thus not be helped. > > Absolutely. It's the way you deal with it that counts. > > > > I usually let them use my Ubuntu laptop (replete with eye candy) > > for a few minutes and they are hooked. > > Excellent example of an encouraging way to deal with it. > > > > On a side note, this may be slightly controversial, it also helps > > sometimes to use "Ubuntu" without the "Linux". > > Huh. Bigots are people too, I guess ;-)
No bigotry here.. It's a fact that Ubuntu has an amazing PR.. So good infact that hard core windoze users don't flinch anymore when I use the F-word (FOSS) in combination with it :) -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
