Morning Amol,
--- Amol Hatwar amol@hatwar.org wrote:
da> what if we guys make a cd of GNU applications that run on windows,applications like
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This is most highly enocuraged, go ahead do the same and let us know where we can help out.
da> open-office, the gimp etc... we can distribute this cd's My question to you is this: Will peddling some GPL'ed/Open Source applications give an authoritative and holistic picture of a real GNU/Linux system? I think it would be much like the fake caviar they dish out on club-class flights...
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Amol.....i respect your opinion but beg to differ. Migration isn't the alpha and omega of getting a person to use FLOSS. Time and again....i have found getting a person convinced about the superiority of the same is a faster route to achieving nirvana with FLOSS on his/her machine.
Its the mind my friend....you have won 90% of the battle there itself. The GUI(GTK/BlueCurve) does the rest...:D
Trevor
-- Best regards, Amol
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