Fighting the"legacy" reputations of GNU/Linux, seventeen years later

  2008-10-18 02:30:02
Regular readers of this column will know that I’m a fan of education and positive experience as an advocacy tool in place of shouting from rooftops. Winning the mindset of an average computer user â€' particularly home users â€' is never going to be a quick process but a recent experience showed me we still have some old and familiar hills toclimb. How do we combat legacy reputations of GNU/Linux that are no longer valid? Ryan Cartwright explores how to combat the legacy reputations in GNU/Linux by way of a telling tale about Debian, Windows and his friend's printer. Read the whole article atFreesoftware Magazine. 
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