[KLUG Advocacy] Seagate and Lindows.com

magoo advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
05 Nov 2003 17:45:50 -0500


With regard to the general population, the toaster analogy is
quite good (IMO).  Lindows has been trying to get that market 
to see the value of Linux for quite some time.  Those low cost
pre-loaded systems sold through Wal-Mart were the first step
toward getting Linux delivered to the masses.

> This announcement is probably aimed 
> at resellers and users who aren't afraid to install thier own disk drive and
> tnker a bit, still a minority of users in general (I think the general popu-
> lation thinks of computers they way they do of toasters), but it is another
> step in the right direction.