Pia Waugh wrote:
Hi Arron,
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One of our members has offered to burn a number of Linux Mint CD's and
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For me personally I was using FOSS for a couple of years before the broader socio-economic impacts and the importance of software freedom really hit me, so it'd be unfair to expect newcomers to get all of it in a few minutes :)
Exactly similar for me. I have been a committed linux and foss user for some years and a sfd activist, however, it was only when I spent several hours(!) watching a richard stallman video (his talk at manchester recently note 1) that I realised the full meaning of it all! If I can miss the full meaning or freedom then a wannabee newbie certainly can. I recall it took me a long time before starting linux use, and there were enough initial hurdles to cross. I like the idea of getting people started asap, then taking the hurdles step by step. Note 1: Free Software in Ethics and Society - Richard Stallman - Manchester 1st May 2008 http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/2008/05/06/free-software-in-ethics-and-socie... -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648