Anyone work somewhere where they're replacing laptops? Problem solved ;) On May 8, 2012 5:07 PM, "Joel Kahn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll make you folks a deal.... > > If you can arrange for me to get an old but still functioning laptop as a > donation (I'm a starving artist), I'll use it to experiment with totally > Libre > software and see if we can turn all of these arguments into some real > (if small) steps. My wife can serve as a test subject; she is a public > school art teacher with moderate computer literacy, and two of her big > ongoing frustrations are the slow performance and frequent hangups of > our six-year-old Windblows XP Professional (ha-ha) desktop. If I can > demonstrate to her an absolutely Libre environment that consistently runs > more swiftly and reliably than MicroSlob, she is in a position to spread > the > word to people who can do something--starting with her brother, who > serves on the local school board. If this goes well, a whole school > district > could eventually be brought from Windblows Prison to the Land of Freedom. > But I can't experiment on our current home hardware. Anybody want to > provide evidence of how a *genuine* community works and send me a machine? > > Joel > > >
