[GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux

[Douglas Rehfeldt]

"One could argue that the masses didn't exactly choose M$."  So, true.  I
always offer the Linux alternative at every chance.  Most people that I
speak with never realized that they have a choice of operating systems other
than Apple and Microsoft.  

> One could argue that the masses didn't
> exactly choose M$.  They were in many
> ways victims of a monopoly, one so
> pervasive that corporations spent tens
> of $billions training their employees in the M$ way.  Now 
> knowing how to use windoz at some level,  they are unlikely 
> to change over to Linux.  And few companies will now pay to 
> help them do it.  It's just less costly to go with the 
> monopoly.  Simplicity in the wrong sense.
> 
> The US gov't allowed M$ to rule the
> software waves for a long time, crippling many of those who 
> dare depart from the approved M$ course.
> 
>     -Bob