NPR - Lindows + WalMart

[Net Llama!]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> If Walmart can get people to use linux on the desktop, we should all be
> grateful. This "superior" attitude of some linux users vis a vis the ordinary
> user is simply inappropriate.

Its not a superior attitude, its a realization of the facts.

> I haven't tried lindows although I might. If the  program warehouse
> really works (Imagine, certified software that works. Is this really true?)
> I'll be interested in it for a desktop machine, not a server.

What many fail to note, or realize is that Lindows is still beta 
software, and this so-called warehouse remains vaporware.

> 
> The "Walmart crowd" is a very large segment of the buying public. I say
> welcome to them!

Its easy to say welcome.  Its quite a different story to actually make 
them feel welcome.

However, more realistically, Lindows is neither Linux nor windows.  Its 
a hyrbid, and if anything, will end up marginalized but both communities 
as the freak.

> 
> Joel
> 
>  
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:16:03PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>>Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
>>
>>>Ken Moffat wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Morning Edition on NPR this morning they had a special on Walmart 
>>>>selling lindows computers. Not a bad audio clip. If you'd like to hear 
>>>>it check www.npr.org, then under programs choose Morning Edition, Latest 
>>>>program, and scroll down to the Lindows link. (You Need realplay8.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Did the NPR report mention that Lindows is a rather light installation,
>>>and that you have to subscribe (to the tune of $100 or so) to download
>>>productivity apps?
>>
>>yes, it did.
>>
>>
>>>I don't think Lindows will make friends for Linux with its current
>>>marketing model.
>>
>>its marketing model isn't intended to make friends with linux.  its 
>>meant for the walmart crowd, who in most cases struggle to find the 
>>POWER button.
>>
>>
>>
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