Spreading the wealth and fun

[Bill Ricker]

On 12/26/07, Joe Palladino <joep at jp3consulting.com> wrote:
> Bill's refurbed laptop reminded me of an article about a guy who was
> distributing old machines with Linux on them and it gave me an idea that
> I'd like to throw out here to the group.  What if as a group we did
> something similar?  We could collect old machines clean them up and
> install Ubuntu on them.  It would generate some publicity and spread the
> wealth.

My response last time this sort of thing was asked was ... there are
groups already doing this except with OEM windows copies. Evangelizing
to them and assisting them in making the switch would have higher
impact (force multiplier) without taking on the logistics of
collection and ditribution.

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Bill
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