[K12OSN] (no subject)

Lee Harr missive at hotmail.com
Thu May 5 21:11:44 UTC 2005


>>As always, the Library will be thinking about what I'm trying to
>>achieve by this, but how do I persuade them that all I'm after is
>>giving the library users a chance to avoid getting locked into a
>>Proprietary world...?
>>


>I would show OpenOffice, Firefox, and Thunderbird making sure you show
>them on Windows AND Linux.  Only after showing these applications would
>I show and discuss Linux.  The "selling" point is that you don't have
>anything to sell.
>


In fact, you could (and should) give it away.  The Open CD is very nice,
and Live CD Linux distros are all over the place now.

How many Windows, Word, and Excel CDs is the library handing out?

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