--- "ian sison (mailing list)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this light i think the reason for the lack of > interest in > re-organizing PLUG is because > it remains stuck in past issues which have long been > resolved.
One of the reasons why PLUG was organized was to popularize the use of Linux. Is Linux in popular use today? I do not think so. Among the hundreds of students and faculty who bring laptops to school (Ateneo) only one teacher (me) and one student (James Choa) run Linux on their laptops. Our general student labs dual boot WinXP/Linux, and what is in use most of the time? WinXP. Of the 60 PCs used during the DLS-Canlubang Philippine Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest, all 60 PCs were running WinXP, except one - the Fedora server. Why do you think the BSA raided UPD and the UP Shopping Center this year? Because they were using WinXP, and not the officially announced UP OS - Linux. How much are Ateneo and DLSU-Manila paying for Windows site licenses? They are paying millions of pesos! For this reason alone, we must not allow PLUG to die. Sayang ang nakaraang paghihirap natin. Yun lang. Pablo Manalastas _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
