On Sun, 17 Jun 2018, Richard Owlett wrote:
In that brochure the word "Mac" occurs twice. "Linux" *NEVER* occurs. Keyboarding skills are mentioned. They also ask the question "Does grammar matter?"
Richard, Not an answer to your question, but an explanation of what you saw. Microsoft and Apple are for-profit companies. The latter gave schools Apple IIe computers which produced a couple of generations who equate 'Apple' and 'computer.' No one makes money selling linux so there's no incentive to mention it. I am constantly amused to read the papers accompanying a piece of hardware, such as my new Mediasonic 4-bay external hard drive enclosure, that carefully describe its compatability with Windows 7, 8, (probably others I've forgotten) and Mac with a minmum OS version number. They don't need to include that it's compatible with all flavors of linux, *BSD, and similar OSes which, incidently, don't need a cdrom with drivers to use the hardware. Forgive your local library. As they buy hardware using public funds they must follow county purchasing policies. These, most likely, don't mention linux at all. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
