[aclug-L] ACLUG

[Kirk Lancaster <lancaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope you do not mind if I express my personal opinion.
Many cities have a LUG and I am pleased that Wichita 
is one of these cities.  With respect to my knowledge 
of Linux, I consider myself one of the "newbies" (or 
ordinary Linux users who do not edit etc/ and use a 
GUI or gvim or vim).  I have seen Clint, Dale, John, Jon, 
James, James, and lots of others spend time helping 
newbies install Linux.  (Laptops seem to be a pain.)
I have asked dumb questions (no surprise??).  I have 
found many ACLUG members to be very helpful.  
While I think more could be done to introduce WSU 
people (students/faculty/staff) and Wichita-area people 
to Linux, I realize that ACLUG is a volunteer activity 
and I support it (including Clint, Dale, Jon, John, etc).

I happen to understand the anti-M$ bias; the idea 
that a company can look through another business 
(or a university) and claim that it is owed $150,000 
per missing or lost license seems criminal and 
un-American to many people.  Even M$ supporters 
have trouble justifying this issue.  The dishonesty 
of some "M$ groups"  (e.g. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/04/1629246&mode=thread) 
bothers me. (See, for example, the comments by 
ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in this thread; he writes 
> Regardless of anything else, using these number to 
> declare that one thing is more secure than another 
> is a mistake. Based on our numbers, why didn't they 
> declare that everyone should run MacOS for security? 
> Or that if you want to be more secure, run Debian 
> instead of Win2K?
Everyone knows the about the tactics of M$.  This is 
separate from using a M$ OS to play games, run a 
business, etc.
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