Re: [tlug] Blog: Ubuntu = Linux / Linux = Ubuntu

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

CL wrote:
> Edward Middleton wrote:
> > I think the author of that article missed the Redhat = Linux / Linux = 
> > Redhat phase.  While this kind of thinking can make it frustrating 
> > talking to newbies,  if it makes things conceptually easier for them, 
> > great.   The major move for a newbie is going to be from Windows, 
> > after that any other Linux or even other UNIX becomes significantly 
> > easier.

> With all due respect, that is an education answer and not a marketing 
> one.  People will use what they are first taught in any majority of 
> instances.  For most of the adult population, education is a limited 
> input unless it pays immediate dividends.

Good point, but if you take this to its natural conclusion, is it not 
mostly a wasted effort to promoting Linux by appealing to end users who 
have no strong motivation to change and have grown up in a windows 
world.  They will, after all revert to what they were first taught. 
Would it not be better to promote the use of Linux in projects like the 
OLPC program, so Linux is the first thing children are taught, and 
appeal to banks, Governments and other large employers who are capable 
of creating a demand and paying a dividend.

Edward