Re: [OS:N:] For reference http://www.go-opensource.co.za/

[Kevin Cole <kjcole gri gallaudet edu>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:16:59PM -0400, Bort Vern wrote:

> I would consider helping to find money to fund such a project to
> provide limited copies of the "Open CD" in the US, but I would tend
> to believe that the money could be better spent elsewhere as all of
> the software is available for download and network connections in
> the United States are more ubiquitous here (not completely, but
> better than South Africa).

The problem, it seems to me, is that a lot of vaguely curious people
aren't willing to make even the effort required to download stuff --
often because they aren't confident that they would be able do it
correctly, or because they've heard all sorts of horror stories about
downloading viruses, etc -- whereas if you hand them a halfway
decent-looking CD, they'll at least pop it into their machines and
have a look.  They've figured out CD's, and are less suspicious
(rightly or not) of infection from such sources.

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