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  From: michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : Daryl Pilkington <u3232@home.dialix.com>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:30:46 +0930 (CST)

Re: MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

Hi.

Hmm. Did you try a double blind test using 3 <18 boys?

Michael :)

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Daryl Pilkington wrote:

> G'day from the Coat-Hanger City,
> 
> I've got 3 <18 girls staying at my place at the moment & when they sat
> down at my OS/2 boxes to check their email, they thought they were Macs.
> (Perhaps they saw similarities with the superb, Object-Orientated GUI on
> OS/2 with the Mac...)
> 
> One of one of PCs even had the IBM Logo clearly visible on the CPU case!
> 
> One of them said, "Oh, if its not Windows, it must be a Mac" (!)
> 
> With young people leaving school with this mentality, we should be
> scared, very scared.
> 
> Interestingly enough, with <2 minutes instruction, the girls were
> running ICQ on the OS/2 boxes & chatting to their friends, they didn't
> really care it wasn't Windows.
> 
> People think they need Windows, but you push them, they'll concede that
> they need functionality.
> 
> When I made my 1st Redhat Linux box it was easier than Win95:- all I did
> was make sure the hardware I was using was supported on the install CD.
> 
> Demonstrating this & the excellent ListServ & Newsgroup support
> available will make superior OSes much more attractive. Gee, it might
> mean, young people might also unwittingly become literate!
> 
>  On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Stephen Donaldson wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'll make some suggestions and flames can catch from there ;-)
> >
> > We can establish a working-party to promote Linux where we see it has a role. (I
> > would be happy to contrbute)
> > We can provide a framework of activities that will expose Linux to those who
> > would benefit from using it.
> > eg free talks to schools, community groups, IT support staff & managers, and
> > (flame jacket on)  we really really REALLY should use the LinuxSA web site in a
> > more proactive manner (read-support-portal) :-)
> > These types of activities may well be the best step in starting a LinuxSA support
> > network, who knows all contibs welcome.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
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> 
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