[CLUE-Tech] Re: Browser Protest Day

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:31:59 -0600
Mike Benavides <tipsrules99 at attbi.com> wrote:

> We have freedom... GPL permits this.. Now are you willing to take the 
> next step push it into the mainstream...   I see a lot a talk but, no 
> real action. You need to get to users to use Linux whether you like the 
> politics or not.

Mike, you sorta lost me with the politics part. But no matter.

What are the tactics that will work to promote Linux?

 * Visibility: Get a running Linux box on the shelf
   at any major retailer
 * Ubiquity: Convince an enormous number of people that
   .DOC should not be the standard inter-op format
 * WWW: Inform sites that their "IE Only" site works
   just fine with Gecko (opera?), and convince them
   to put up "download Mozilla" links.
 * Get Linux into the K-12 system.
(http://www.oregonlive.com/printer/printer.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standa
rd.xsl?/base/all_wire_stories/101386428029222529.xml) * AOL for Linux

Any other suggestions?

jed
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