[ubuntu-women] Happy Women's Day :)

[Lucia Mazzoni]

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

(...) This makes it an important stepping stone for
> us. Once people get used to using these applications they will see the
> switch to Ubuntu as easier because they will be using the same
> applications and their data will be easier to move across. Some people
> might also gradually be exposed to the ideas of FOSS and may seek to
> migrate to a Free platform for that reason.
> 
> Companies and organisations who are planning to switch over to Free
> platforms in the long term will often do it as a gradual process, first
> moving most people onto OpenOffice on Windows and then gradually move
> machines over to Linux as they are replaced or need an OS upgrade. So,
> it's all parts of the puzzle.

Totally agree with you.
When I help friends with their windoze installations I always have in my
bag a CD full of open source software for win: firefox, thunderbird,
openoffice, abiword, thegimp, PDF creator... well it's quite the same
content of theopenCD ;)
The "colonization" starts from here! (I'm joking :)
Lucia

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