[PLUG] Linux Expo/Demo/whatever

[Richard June]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Richard June wrote:

> Yes, and there is a reason they don't generally compare. If they
> compare/contrast products they give the competition free advertising and
> they may lose sales to the good enough but cheaper stuff, or to better and
> cheaper... while we can pretty much agree that Linux is Mostly better than
> WinX contrasting and comparing the two would 
> A) make us seem like MS hating freaks(we may be, but we don't want to come
> off like that)
> B) Make people say, if I can do 80 - 90 percent with windows and it's
> free(It comes on the machine, to most people it's free) why bother?
> C) Make us whore ourselves out to put linux in the best possible light so
> that we avoid B.
> D) Something else bad I haven't thought of yet. 
> 
> I would suggest that we break it down so:
> Alpha) Linux in High performance configurations(Beowulf, Sparc, Alpha,
>          etc.)
>  Beta) Linux in embedded type applications(Routers, stereo componants,
>          handhelds, etc)
> Delta) Linux in the Office(GNOMEOffice, KOffice, StarOffice, etc.)
> Gamma) Linux gaming(commercial and Free)
> Omega) Linux Distributions(Who everyone is and what their goals are)
>   Tau) Servers and general Networking(Apache, Samba, Sendmail, etc.)
>   Phi) Linux in the home(Browsing, mp3s, etc.)
>    Pi) Miscellaneous stuff I may have missed.
>  Zeta) Catherine's fine, fine, ass :-)
> 
> Did I miss anything?
I did miss something. 
 Sigma) Security.