Social Experiment

[Cyrus Jones]

People by nature resist change, even if it is good. Change happens
when either the change is impossible to resist or much, much better
than the current state. But gradually, we can make change.

I'd like to hear what happens and the comments people say (like if
they say you have a cheap, free OS while I have the real thing
[-Windows]).

On 9/15/07, Alex Janssen <alex at ourwoods.org> wrote:
> ***I originally posted this to ubuntu-users.  Sounder was suggested as a
> better place to post this type of message.***
>
> I just setup the first Linux desktop, Feisty, facing a highly trafficked
> aisle in my sales department amongst a bunch of WinXP'ers.  This should
> be interesting listening to the comments.
>
> The sales person using this new desktop commented that as long as her
> apps ran, she did not care what OS was used.  She did ask what happened
> to the green start button in the lower left corner of the screen.  I
> told her we got rid of the stupid thing and made a better menu system in
> the top left.  She was Ok with that.  I also informed her that she now
> has the coolest screensavers in the office.  She liked leaving them as
> random rather than choosing one.
>
> I was having a little trouble figuring out what to do fix the refresh
> rate, as the monitor was not recognized, when my factory engineer
> stopped by and commented "must be that damn linux you were telling me
> about".
>
> I setup putty to telnet to the accounting server, an old sco unix
> installation, and had a little trouble getting the character set and
> translation right for the line drawing characters around the menus and
> screens,  but finally found a combination that worked, the
> lucidatypewriter font and CP437 translation table.
>
> I finally setup rsync to backup all her important stuff to another linux
> box used as general purpose network storage.
>
> I had prep'd everybody for this eventual change by switching, 2 years
> ago, to all open source apps, i.e.; Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org
> ...  those are the main ones.  A number of people have taken those apps
> home on CD's I've given them.  People are always surprised to hear that
> they are FREE.
>
> I'll post results back here as they come in.
>
> Cheers to all you rebels,
> Alex
>
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