Tux 500
Scott van Looy
scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Apr 12 11:51:20 UTC 2007
On Apr 11 alan did spake thusly:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 11 April 2007, alan wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, jim tate wrote:
>>>> I know this is not the place to post this , but this is
>>>> very important for the Linux community to see.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tux500.com/
>>>
>>> Exactly why is this important?
>>>
>>> Sounds like a marketing department trying to raise money
>>> for their pet project.
>>
>> Why is that so Bad?
>>
>> Its important because it takes marketing and exposure to
>> advance anything. Which camp are you in the one that wants
>> to see more people use Linux or the one that does care if
>> more people use Linux?
>
> For $300,000 I could buy a lot of beer and/or cider at user group meetings
> and generate a lot more good will than driving a car around a strip of
> asphalt.
Probably cause less damage to the environment too...cars are evil...
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