Yeah, CompuMentor just one a 100 grand for their business plan. I spent all morning reading through that slashdot thread and made a few posts. The interesting thing is that Linux has made its gain in the market, and peoples consciousness, without the aid of a marketing department. Of course I kinda look at myself as the marketing department, but I am not going to be airing any 30 second tv spots anytime soon. I have a strategy in mind though, a few months ago I registered gnubie.org with the idea of creating a site that introduces people to the concept of Free Software. I guess gnu.org already does this but I am thinking more of a Free Software 101 site we can point people to. Anyway it wasn't until today that even thought about putting up an index page. check it out: www.gnubie.org Later, JohnGnuB On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:14 am, you wrote: > I forgot this, CompuMentor http://www.compumentor.org/ is the distribution > outlet mentioned in the NYT article. > > Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Cook" <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:05 AM > Subject: Microsoft's Software Philanthropy: The Goodwill Ploy (slashdot) > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/2225203&mode=thread&tid=109&tid >= > > > 187 > > > > The NY Times article > > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/26/technology/26SOFT.html?th referenced is > > interesting, although I think we already suspected as much. > > > > Mike > > To post to the list send email to <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list > website at <http://www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana> To post to the list send email to <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> You may unsubscribe or change your list settings by going to the list website at <http://www.freelists.org/webpage/frgeek-michiana>