[Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux
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- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:35:12 +0530
The context in this post is the huge financial and propaganda effort
being put in by Microsoft to prevent the spread of linux (or call it
open source or foss) - it is not the ongoing quarrel between various
people on the assignment of credit for creating parts of the open source
software ecosystem. If you want to have a thread on that subject feel
free to start your own.
I apologize for trying to take the thread in a different direction, It
was not intentional. When I read your interesting opinion on
Ubuntu/Android and how Microsoft might have had a hand in them not using
the term "Linux", the first thing that popped into my head was "Its a
good thing" (debatable, of course). And, I misread the subject of the
email as "why it is important to promote linux (brand)".
Microsoft's efforts to prevent the spread of Linux has died down a bit
in the last few years. Even Microsoft Azure cloud service now offers
GNU/Linux as a choice of virtual machine,
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/microsoft-run-linux-azure-195068
I am sure many of us have tried to promote GNU/Linux through word of
mouth but that works only to a certain extent.
I would say promote Linux as a product but not as a brand.
whatever this means
What that means is, the word "Linux" is not important. Promote the
features, softwares, and the freedom that GNU/Linux offers.
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