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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:32:01 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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In <4krsc4$m7t@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) writes:
>Mom: "But millions and millions of people use Windows, it can't be that bad!"
>Me: "Mom, millions and millions of people don't know any better."
I'll be installing Linux on my mothers two home machines this weekend.
She uses windows, but when it comes to getting the most out of networking
and online access, she and her husband decided Linux was the way to go.
On the subject: that is all we have to do to make Free Unix great - show
it to people, and give them a helping hand to get going. Don't set it up
for people who will have no hope of using it of course (ie. who would rather
ask you for help than read a manual), or you'll run into support nightmares.
--
Warwick
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