How many average users are going to know to type "linux benefits OR advantages" though? The average person doesn't realize the shortcomings of computers, especially when they still get results for questions (or even search engines like Jeeves ENCOURAGING them to...)
<br><br>In regards to the article, I don't think this is "THE KEY!", but it's one more thing that microsoft has going for them- people know about it. heck, if some people would donate computers to schools on the requirement that they only run linux and FOSS, even ten schools, that could get thousands of kids using linux, and wanting to take it and use it at home. 50 computers per school (enough for one large lab or two normal sized labs), assuming 500$ each would only be a quarter of a million or so for every ten schools. If you consider the life of a computer in an environment where they hardly ever need upgrades (which the basic Code/Write Essay/Do Research schools do can be done easily on a decade old computer), and you consider they're probably getting about 300 new students a year, that could easily be 30,000 kids exposed to linux in a day-to-day environment, and curiosity could easily lead at least 1/20th (one kid in every class, on average) to adopt linux, that's 1,500 new linux fans. Should come out to be about 170$ for each of those 1,500- and then you've also educated the 30,000 about linux, so they're more likely to pick it up later, or at least know how to use it and be more likely to embrace it.
<br><br>Of course, I just pulled those numbers out of a hat, but 170$ doesn't seem too bad to get new users- it would probably even be good business for a company like Linspire.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/22/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Billy Crook</b> <<a href="mailto:billycrook@gmail.com">billycrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The author needs to learn how search engines work. You can't converse
with them like a person. "Why choose linux?" is not a smart query.
Maybe "linux benefits OR advantages". Furthermore, the question is not
why one would choose linux, but why one would choose windows.
Especially when it is so obviously inferior.
<br><br>And the last thing a newbie needs is a comparison of distros
unless that comparison clearly puts one above all others. Too much
choice is bad for most people. Take for example the windows market.
There are varying degrees of "Home" and "business". A home user might
want home, but maybe he thinks he wants something a little more.
"business" sounds professional, lets get that, but wait, does that mean
it will miss the fun things? But if he buys "home", will he miss the
professional things? Too much choice is a recepie for confusion and
frustration. That's why microsoft has "Ultimate". With a name like
that, Gladys in accounting can feel like she's "getting everything". <br><br>The problem is linux doesn't have tiers, so it has no top
tier. Until it does, sheeple won't know what they're supposed to think
they want. [sic] Until it does, I'm handing out Ubuntu discs. When
one of those doesn't boot right, they get Fedora.
<br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_113557304a698baa_1"><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julie</b> <<a href="mailto:betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
betelgeuse67stang@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="e" id="q_113557304a698baa_3">
<div><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=519" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=519</a></div> <div> </div> <div>Some <em>interesting</em> points can be found in this article. The msg threads can be either quite amusing or
<font face="Times New Roman" size="3">exasperating, at least to a point. If you have a zdnet account I hope you chime in. If you don't have an account, there's no big deal in making one. <wink></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font> </div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">ENJOY!</font></div><span> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Julie @};-</font></div></span><span>
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