<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks:<div><br></div><div>Jack is quite right, but I just want to chime in that while it could work, it would take a "coordinated assault."</div><div><br></div><div>I moved here last year from Ithaca, NY where we had a pretty large "Ithaca Free Software Association." Via the efforts of my old boyfriend, who know is active in the NH Ubuntu group, Ubuntu was the "Linux of Choice" for the group. We worked for a few years (say 4-5) and managed to get Linux in the High School. The ultimate achievement of the program was having the High School actually hire a Linux Systems Administrator.</div><div><br></div><div>What this ultimately took, however, was specific inside, one-on-one contacts in the school. </div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft and Apple can do what they do because they have the resources of several deities. We don't. While theirs is a frontal assault, Linux still needs to be more of a "sneak attack." I am convinced that Ubuntu is the best positioned distro for it, but it still remains an uphill battle.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not saying its not possible. I'm not saying its not worth doing. I am saying its a very long haul project.</div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">---</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Richard "Doc" Kinne • Rikardo «Dokĉjo» KINNE, BA, MSc., AMAAS</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><kinnerc @ gmail.com> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; font-family: Georgia; ">"I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up!"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Georgia" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; font-family: Georgia; ">- The Doctor<br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">"Forests of the Dead," <i>Doctor Who</i></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></div></div><div><div>On 22 Apr , 2009, at 09:14, Linane, Jack wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> Change is hard for most people. Once you get set in your ways it is<br>EXTREMLY difficult to change. People havwe been putting up with<br>Microsoft for years. Their attitude is that's the way it is!! <br><br>I think a UGS Ubuntu Geek Squad could work now. I feel the place to<br>target is the k-12 schools. Apple did it years ago by giving free CPU's<br>and charging for the software. With the budget cuts coming in heavier<br>each year schools are going to need a stable alternative. If little<br>Johhny goes home and tells his parents about "A new software they are<br>using at school" parents will ask questions about it. They may possibly<br>load it at home, love it and tell their bosses and co workers about it.<br>The best marketing tool is word of mouth.<br><br>My 2 cents.<br><br>Jack<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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