Re: Opinion: this publicity, Linux doesn’t need

[Charlotte Curtis]

Just want to put in my two cents...

If we were to cause a ruckus/create mayhem, that would be counterproductive
to the cause and pretty stupid.  If we're not respectful of the microsoft
people as well as the general public, then all we're doing is affirming
their suspicions that linux folks are all evangelical anti-establishment
geeks.  I think the opportunity here is the fact that we have a group of
people who will probably be more susceptible to listen to us for 2 reasons:

1 - If they're actually interested in Vista, then they're probably a little
more interested in computers than the average person
2 - If they're not interested in Vista and were just drawn to the ice house,
then they're probably just as likely to be drawn to a 10-foot penguin

As long as people are well dressed and courteous and don't try to be too
pushy, I think this is as good an opportunity as any to spread the word.

Charlotte

On 2/2/07, Anthony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> I'm sorry you got a bad impression of this effort from your initial
> search engine sleuthing.  I just wanted to let you know that it's not
> anywhere near as nefarious as your initial results (or your selections
> from them) make it out to be.  Much of what you quoted from the
> mailing list were things said in jest, which is understood in context
> among the people who frequent the list, but is less apparent to an
> outsider (perhaps we need <joke> tags since this is publicly
> archived).  I wanted to clarify that the intent is NOT actually to
> cause mayhem of any kind, nor destroy any Microsoft or other private
> property, or even disrupt festivities - I think we can all agree these
> would indeed be bad things, as you wrote.  The "official" plan if you
> will is to educate people passing by or killing time waiting to get
> into the Ice House about the dangers of Vista's licensing terms and
> the advantages and availability of free open-source software
> alternatives, in a completely respectful, legal manner (and I do fully
> expect anyone who wanted to actually do the sorts of things you quoted
> would be prevented from doing so).  It is unfortunate that you got a
> bad impression of the effort from select excerpts of mailing list
> posts (and also that you missed much of the related discussion on
> IRC), but am confident that today's events will come off without any
> problems - or at least none caused by the Ubuntu Toronto group, and
> the discussion about legality and dealing with police was only in
> order to be prepared if confronted about what's going on, which again,
> should be kept entirely legal and orderly, and hope that you will
> change your mind afterwards.
>
> You can also read my blog post about it
> (
> http://blog.tonyyarusso.com/planetubuntu/ubuntu-canadas-toronto-chapter-brings-the-penguin-to-the-ice-house/
> ),
> Dave Sullivan's post (http://dave-sullivan.com/entries/4/), and the
> press release which was sent out
> (http://www.tonyyarusso.com/files/ubuntu-to_press_release.txt)
>
> Tony Yarusso
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