[olug] 10 ways to pay back the open source community

VHP3 vhpascale3 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 12 19:29:36 UTC 2005


I tend to agree with #8, share thy wisdom.  Mainly, in
'spreading the word'.  There are droves of people out
there who don't even know the Open Source community
exists and are stuck purchasing expensive software for
free when suitible open source solutions exist.  Case
in point, my girlfriend, far from the techno-dweeb
that I am, but she needed an office suite to write a
paper and couldn't afford M$ Office.  So, being the
nice guy that I am steered her in the direction of
Open Office, which she loves.  She then spread the
word to a couple of roommates who use it also.

My $.02...

Vince

--- Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:

>
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/1557225
> 
> Good little article from the 15yo kid.  Puts things
> in plain english
> and makes it something to read on occasion to
> remember that we are all
> trying to do something for the good of us AND for
> our friends around the
> world.  8)  
> Call me a softy!  8)
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
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