<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/28 Lucy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lucybridges@gmail.com">lucybridges@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 28/08/2008, London School of Puppetry <<a href="mailto:lspinfo@gmail.com">lspinfo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi there - I suppose my concern is not a personal need to join a group etc-<br>
> but rather the impression an organisation makes- I think Ubuntu is great-<br>
> and the support from the 'community'(male or female) helping me to make a<br>
> necessity work - I am irritated by female Windows users I know who don't<br>
> need it for games, sound and film editing and so COULD switch to Ubuntu but<br>
> it seems such a big deal because of the atmos surrounding open <a href="http://source.an" target="_blank">source.an</a><br>
> atmosphere that has never bothered me personally-I have to say!<br>
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</div>Hmm, interesting. Why do computers create such fear in people? I've<br>
known plenty of users who were scared of changing their basic<br>
computing habits, never mind their OS. I've not considered the effect<br>
that the perception of open source could have though, I thought that<br>
was something which mainly affected large organisations.<br>
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I'd be interested to know whether people were put off using<br>
linux/Ubuntu because it's 'open source' and why, and what we as a<br>
community could do to change it.</blockquote><div><br>Hi, I think sometimes people think big is best. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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