| Well said! I first heard of Groklaw on Slashdot, which I almost never look at
now. But I do see Groklaw quoted on sites like the BBC, and even the M$
shill ZDnet. I seem to remember the Grauniad too. When you are being quoted as
an authoritative source of information, you do not need advertising, others do
it for you for free. As for Linux, the people who need to know about it right
now mostly design things like phones, gadgets, routers etc. The general public
have little perception of it, so far. They mostly don't even connect it with
Android. But they don't know that their Apple is using a Mach kernel and BSD
userland either. But they often don't know what a web browser is either, as you
hear them talking about clicking on the "internet", meaning Inept Exploder. I
don't think it is worth trying to educate Joe Public about operating systems.
They don't care, they just want something that works, and when their laptop
slows to a crawl because it is stuffed full of service packs and bloatware, they
go and buy another. Sad I know, but that is how it is. If the schools waken up
and decide to slash their IT budgets by getting raspberry Pis, then the kids
will begin to learn all about Linux, but the average adult, no way. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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