[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Expo

Leroy Tennison leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Sat Dec 31 22:55:49 CST 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 09:59:46PM -0600, Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>>Your point about malware is excellent.  Charging for Windows-to-Linux 
>>conversion?  That's not a bad idea, I just don't know if NTLUG wants to 
>>be the sponsor and I don't know if we would want to do it on 
>>"presentation day"  except as a demonstration of what's it's like. 
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>Oh, I don't think we would do installs/conversions on presentation day, 
>as most people wouldn't have brought their machine then anyway.  But
>we should at least let them know where they can go next if they want
>some "professional" help in switching over, as well as some options
>they'll feel comfortable with.
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>(I think that many people might feel more comfortable/legitimate
>paying to have their system converted to Linux than they would with 
>having it done for free by a bunch of hackers/geeks with mysterious
>motives and evangelistic purposes.)
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>Pm
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Good point, I obviously wasn't thinking real straight when I made that post.





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