Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Benjamin Webb) > 2. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (baza) > 3. Re: Battle of the Operating Systems (Benjamin Webb) > 4. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Benjamin Webb) > 5. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Roberto Sarrionandia) > 6. Re: Battle of the Operating Systems (Robin Menneer) > 7. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Toby Smithe) > 8. Re: Battle of the Operating Systems (Benjamin Webb) > 9. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Benjamin Webb) > 10. Re: BBC Vista Coverage (Roberto Sarrionandia) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:43:34 +0000 > From: "Benjamin Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage > To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 30/01/07, John McCourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> No offense, but Linux is not gonna have any chance at >> competing with the marketing drive of Microsoft over >> the next few months. Vista is the BIG thing in the IT >> world at the moment getting all the attention and >> until the novelty wears off and that blows over it >> will stay the big thing. The press simply wont be >> interested in little Linux when the big guns are >> making a new release. > > Your're probably right. Microsoft will be taking the spotlight. > >> linux >> doesn't really have much of an advertising campaign >> and isn't visible on too many popular sites in the >> form of banners or mentions and because of this Linux >> is largely going unheard, unseen and unnoticed on most >> major sites and tv stations. Vista and Mac are both >> being advertised regularly on the most popular sites >> on the world. > > However, we ought to try to make people more aware that they don't > need to use this propietary software. IMO, there should be some > campaign to try to show people that Linux can be a viable alternative > to Windows Vista. No matter how small the effect, it will be worth the > effort, even if just to say we did not stand by and let microsoft > create a monopoly. > > --Ben Webb
Already Exists:- http://badvista.fsf.org/ Regards Lee -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
