From a recent Slashdot post, it seems that “Microsoft has launched its ‘Get the Facts’ road show — the tech equivalent of a political battle bus — to tour [the UK] and convince the wavering that Redmond is as at least cheap and as secure as its open-source rival and to spread the word that Windows is better than Linux. Nick McGrath, Microsoft’s head of platform strategy, described the campaign as ‘a reality check we’re bringing out’, aiming to tackle the ‘myths’ surrounding Linux. Microsoft’s road show will be in Edinburgh on June 17, Manchester on June 29 and Newport on July 7.”
This sounds like a fun event to ‘gatecrash’ and distribute Linux CDs, free Linux T-shirts etc.
In fact, to all those people who a blinkered enough to think that Microsoft is The Only Option, this will just serve to remind them that there is real competition out there.
Gandhi said something like:
- They ignore you;
- They laugh at you;
- They fight you;
- You win.
We appear to be well inside Step 3 …
Just let them hit the West Mids. I will organise a bunch of linux people to go wearing suits for maximum infiltration then we will all put our hands up to the ‘Do you really believe Linux is free?’ question 😉
PermalinkHi Sparkes – long time no see … have been getting “Document contains no data” errors from your web site and haven’t seen you on #lugradio for a while.
Permalinkgot a phone call yesdterday asking me to come along to one in Edinburgh (sp?) today, or one on Newport next week.
Nearly said yes to the Newport one, but couldn’t justify it to myself (ie take time off work for something completely useless as far work goes).
Would have been nice to heckle from the ffront though!!!
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