Recent experience advocating Linux

[James]

did you yell at him:

PSP huh? Sweeeeeett! He's morphing! Square! Force field! Force Field! Get up
in there! Get up in there! Cluster bomb! CLUUUUUUSTTERR BOMB! ah man!
cluster bomb *sigh of disapointment*

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Stephen Kawamoto <shkawamoto at yahoo.com>wrote:

> On the bus to work the other day - I'm a security guard - I talked to an
> Asian lad using his PSP 2000.
>
> He claimed familiarity originally with Mac and Windows XP.
>
> At some point in the past, he tried Linux but didn't like it. I assume this
> may be due to the point-&-click syndrome caused by extensive Mac and Windows
> use.
>
> So I advocated Linux like mad, expressing my opinion about freeing one from
> licensing renewals during upgrades i.e. XP and 7 require separate licenses,
> as do Macs. This is reflect in their price.
>
> As the person has some familiarity with Linux, I didn't mention that Linux
> is usually free.
>
> At our destination, he said he'd look into trying out Linux again.
>
> My only regret is not having printed up personal business cards, which I'll
> remedy when I return to my Dell machine - I'm in the middle of migrating
> from a Dell GX60 to a Compaq D51C.
>
>
>
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