> Just *boot* it out and replace with Ubuntu. It is not just the cost of > the OS. The other apps add up. What people don't understand that a > linux > OS does not just replace Windows, but also Office, AntiVirus, Firewall, > Outlook, MS Project, Anti-Spyware.... all those apps that cost you > money.
Oh, right. When a pirated copy of XP, and office, can be had for dirt cheap? Advocacy is great, but naïve advocacy doesn’t really help. Yes it is listed as a "best practice" to "educate people" not to use pirated software, in my botnet toolkit - but I could sure wish for the moon while I'm at it. So I have a few other suggestions in there .. working to provide this kind of stuff to cybercafés, school and college labs etc where a lot of people access the Internet. And then find projects like those ELCOT is executing for the tamil nadu government, setting up Linux PCs for govt offices. http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/botnet.html - poke around at the background paper, especially the last few pages.
