On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, der.hans wrote:

> Am 31. Oct, 2003 schw=E4tzte Don Calfa so:
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> > Just an observation:
> >
> > On the websites I manage, Windows 95 users share 1.2% to 1.5% of the OS
> > base where Linux has a .2% share.
> >
> > IE has anywhere from 90% to 94% with Netscape at avg 4%.
> >
> >
> > Do we know what the real share percentage is?
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> No real way to know that. It's insignificant enough to be irrelevant. We
> need to change that.
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> InstallFests are a good way of boosting the GNU/Linux numbers. At 25 to
> 100 boxen per InstallFest, though, that's not gonna change things anytime
> soon...
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> Knoppix is great, but we're not AOHell and can't afford the buckage to gi=
ve
> a copy ( or 10 ) to everyone.
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> Another tack as far as browsers goes is to encourage people to use Free
> Software applications even if they're not ready for a Free Software OS. W=
e
> can have great impact by gettting small and medium sized organizations to
> move to things like Mozilla, Evolution, the GIMP, and OpenOffice.org on m=
$
> platforms. Enter GNUwinII :).
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> http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html
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> ciao,
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> der.hans

A problem wit a few promenant gnu programs is their windows versions
suck. Gaim under linux is my favorite client under any os, however it is no=
t
stable under windows and it does not have many of the normal featues.

Also overlapping programs hurt rather than help the cause...so no evolution=
,
just mozilla and only the latest version.

A bad impression is worse than no impression at all.