> Negativity rarely helps progress. It costs > nothing but time to go to these kinds of things and > dismissing them out of hand is ridiculous.
Right, and stressing the positive might be as easy as standing up, asserting that there's a low-cost way to avoid the Microsoft trap, and then inviting all interested parties to have a peek at the laptop you happen to have with you, so they can see for themselves that the learning curve could be fairly shallow... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss