[Linux] Software Freedom day

[Aaron Wolfe]

PCs are so cheap these days I have a hard time believing there are many
people who can afford a PC but not one capable of running MS software..
even a 5 year old PC can usually run XP just fine, and these are
basically thrown away.  As for people who like to tinker with
computers... is it even possible there are any who don't know about
linux?  I mean, if you are into PCs at all, you at least know linux
exists.  If you are into messing around with them, you've probably
already got a linux box at home.  "It's a known thing" to quote one of
my fav. TV shows.

On the other hand, I think there are lots of people who know of linux
and know its 'free', but do not understand what "free" means in the free
software sense.  An attempt to inform people about why software should
be free and the benefits that free software can have for society would
perhaps interest a much wider audience.  There is also a lot of free
software that runs on Windows (Firefox, ClamWin, OpenOffice, GIMPshop,
PDFCreator, VLC, etc, etc...)  If your presentation was about software
freedom and you gave out disks with free software for windows, instead
of linux, your audience would be pretty much everyone..

Well that's my $0.02. =20

-Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-admin@flux.org [mailto:linux-admin@flux.org] On Behalf Of
Terry Richards
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:32 AM
To: linux@flux.org
Subject: Re: [Linux] Software Freedom day

Adam Glass wrote:

> Actually, that's not a bad question.  FOSS doesn't need a whole lot of

> advocacy these days.  Most people already seem to know about it.
>
> One benefit I can think of is recruiting a few new people to FLUX.=20
>  But you do still raise a valid question.
>
> --Adam
>
>
> On 7/30/07, *Aaron Wolfe* <Aaron@kdtsolutions.com=20
> <mailto:Aaron@kdtsolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>     Beyond where the "target audience" would be,  I am wondering who
>     exactly is the target audience, and what is it that you're trying
>     to do to them?
>

i would think, ppl who only have "old" computers which won't take the=20
newest and greatest M$ and ppl who want to actually want to "fiddle"=20
with a computer.

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