Most of them are preloaded with FeeDos so that the computer price can be reduced by as much as 1K? Unlike corporate users, most of the home users don't give a crap whether their OS is legal or pirated, they just want something cheap (This is especially in Malaysia).
If you think people will install Ubuntu instead of Windows just because it gives them a "legal" OS, then you are wrong. Unless Ubuntu will let them play the latest Call of Duty, Crysis or whatever game there is and let them easily have the same setup for Word processing as in their office (for those non-gamers), otherwise no. Best Regards, Zarul Shahrin On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:26 PM, sweemeng ng <swees...@gmail.com> wrote: > A few of our community events, we did try to have a install fest, the thing > is none worked the way we want. Probably we did it the wrong way(?) or we > talking to the wrong audience(?). Really I don't know. > > Maybe because it is easy for them to get illegal copy of windows, or in > university MSDN give them the latest anyway. Again really I don't know the > real reason. But this is base on feel and observation. > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: > >> I went to the PIKOM PC fair this weekend and I saw a whole bunch of >> computers with FreeDOS installed. The people selling them didn't hesitate >> to offer "unlicensed" windows, though. >> >> It seems like this would be a very good opportunity for people in our >> community. We could treat it like a Linux installfest... give out Ubuntu >> (or any distro) discs and offer to do the installation for free. Then we >> give out our our business card and offer to do support for low rates paid >> into the local economy. >> >> This way, people have a more information and more choices... unusable >> FreeDOS, illegal windows (maybe RM50), or fully updated and licensed Ubuntu >> with all the features. >> >> It inspired a blog entry... >> >> "What the heck is FreeDOS?" : http://bit.ly/g44haf >> >> If you like it, post a comment on the blog... it makes me feel good :) >> >> -- >> Ghodmode >> http://www.ghodmode.com/blog >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from and detail about this group >> http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information >> >> MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 >> >> MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification >> http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 > > MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification > http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 MOSC Survey 2011 Awareness Of OSS Certification http://survey.mosc.my/mosc-survey-2011-awareness-oss-cert
