John, This fundamentalistic answer is not the solution. We can't wine a direct fight to windows! is to powerfull and has lots and lots of money. The only way is wining small battles. For example, I started to learn linux two years ago, I use it giving my clases at the University with startoffice presentations; results: a) more than 300 student now know that there are alternatives to windows. b) All the researchers and grants of my laboratory know linux and we have a server runing Mandrake. Most of them have linux in their home computers. c) Some studend of secondary school, that are in the same class of my dougther know that linux exist and one of them has installed linux mandrake 8.2 at home under my advertisment. d) A private teacher of my doughter has installed mandrake 8.2, I gave him a copy and I am helping him; he is planning to install Mandrake 8.2 as a server in the Secondary School when I teaches.
Results: one new linux user (my ^_^) more than 20 new users; I hope those new users will help to create more new users.... This is the way, slow, step by step, without fighting directly windows (I have some computers with both system, for example for packages I can't still run under linux or for those games my children like to play). But If it is runing under linux or there are alternative packages for linux, I don't start windows. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
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