[CS-FSLUG] NI: Massachusetts to adopt 'open' desktop

[Don Parris]

On 9/1/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 6:24 pm, JD Runyan wrote:
> > Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > > Another blow to MickySoft......their Office is "out," and OpenOffice is
> > > "in." Logic would dictate that Linux will be replacing 'Bloze as well!
> > >

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> >
> > Getting rid of the OS is probably not so much an issue after the MFC
> > chord has been cut, but it won't happen until some brave computer
> > manufacturer actually builds and markets a PC pre-installed with Linux
> > as the default configuration. I don't think OS cost will drive it much,
> > because most people view the OS as a part of the computer, and thus the
> > OS is not usually budgeted for. The inroads on POS systems are more
> > valuable, because those companies are starting to provide total Linux
> > solutions. As they do so, they have started providing general purpose
> > machines to manage the registers that run Linux. These can be used for
> > everything else as well. All it takes is a geek to point it out to them.
> 
> That is true, however, bear in mind that the ENTIRE state of Indiana is NOW
> going to be SUES Linux THIS year in all high schools, with all students
> having a PC in school later on. You know that this will eventually be ALL
> schools for all grads in Indiana. So, it presently doesn't matter that the
> "big" PC makers still have their heads in a sand bucket.
> 
> Fred
> 

Well, I think moves like this will help push the hardware vendors to
start offering GNU/Linux as an alternative, pre-installed OS.

Don
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