Re: Why not more protests of Windows

["WILLIAM FINK" <william.fink@charter.net>]

Sure,  I would exercise my right to free speach...and free 
software.


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:09:53 -0600
  "Flood Randy Capt AFCA/TCAA" <Randy.Flood@scott.af.mil> 
wrote:
>
>
>I read that this friday, there is going to be an anti-war 
>protest outside of Scott AFB. 
> http://www.insteadofwar.org/site/calendar/events.php?id=E196
>
>Now, it's great to see people out expressing their 1st 
>Ammendment rights.    But, in terms of preventing war... 
>well, they could probably pick a better place to protest 
>than Scott.  No-one on Scott really has the 
>decision-making authority to prevent war.  
>
>Some of them do however, have the decision-making 
>authority to choose what operating system they use.  So, 
>why aren't there more pro-Linux protests, or whatever.  I 
>bet if you could get enough people with pro-Linux signs 
>or anti-Windows signs, you could comandeer the press that 
>showed up to cover an anti-war protest and get a lot of 
>publicity for Linux.  Now, whether that publicity would 
>be good, or bad, I don't know.  It was just a random 
>thought.
>
>Randy   
>
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