Good Day People: After reading over the "ArticleForLocalMagazine" wiki page, I thought I would add a couple of comments from the "New England" point of view. [Even though it's been a while since I went to school there.]
Free Software is free because of freedom not price, the GNU project cover this well and you can find a link to it under the About Ubuntu Menu selection. Businesses pay their people far more then it costs them to buy them software licenses, which is why businesses are not going to bring something new and unknown just because "it doesn't cost anything to use". Many people don't understand that they pay for windows because it is already installed on the computer when they buy it. So they bring the computer home and use it to browse the net and send mail and maybe go out and buy some kind of word processor to write letters and ant-virus software. Of course there are other types of people, but a vast number of them have the mind set that "it's a windows world". Which is the issue that has to be addressed without making Ubuntu sound like a second rate product. The article does go over a many of these points, if you cut out about 50% of the volume you many be on the right track. "Forget Windows" Mike Feravolo -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
