On Friday 03 Oct 2003 6:20 am, rikona wrote:Good move. And let's not forget OpenOffice! If you can get people using Mozilla and OO on Windows, they should hardly notive the difference when they change to Linux.
Hello HaywireMac,
Wednesday, October 1, 2003, 6:31:39 AM, you wrote:
H> I did my own very small part yesterday, I couldn't convince a H> friend to switch to Linux, but I got them to use Mozilla and H> Thunderbird instead of the usual virus-spreaders.
I try to get all M$ users to stop using M$ software even if they wish to keep running Win. If they don't mind a modest cost, check out TheBat for email. It is probably the most secure and private client available for Win. It's also a really nice client, too. :-) My choice to replace IE is Opera, which is also available for linux.
Help stamp out M$ any way we can. If we can get as many M$ users as
possible started using non-M$ software, it gets them thinking in
the right direction. Every little bit helps.
For years I have been installing first Netscape, the later Mozilla on windows machines, and configuring the email setup for my users, so they are not tempted to use IE. They are soon comfortable with it, and if we ever get so far as getting them to see the light they will have one major application totally familiar :-)
Sir Robin
-- "I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next moment they may sting you. - Wittgenstein
Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
