🚀 go-pugleaf

Although this is a noble pursuit, I think concentrating on support for
devices such as scanners, digital cameras and the like will prove more
useful in the eventual Linux revolution.

Due to the lack of this support, people like me are unable to completely
switch over to Linux and are left forced into either WinTel or Mac (yuck!)
machines.

Just my $.02 worth...

john (a.k.a. yahya)

http://abacus2000.com

John Garrison wrote in message <362F06B8.53EED373@visi.net>...
>I am writing this because it is about time that we as Linux users made a
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>stand for our right to equal computing.  One of the reasons I switched
>to Linux was after reading a remark from a Microsoft spokesperson that
>said any small business competing with Microsoft had better plan on
>going out of business or selling out to them.  This was a real remark,
>not some fictitious accusation. I am a small businessman, but while most
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>people see that as a threat, I see it as a challenge.  And as I look
>through the various new articles on the Microsoft trial, I see things
>like computer manufacturers saying that they can't sell me a Linux
>computer because they have a contract with Microsoft.  Ya know, call me
>crazy, but I thought that companies were supposed to serve the
>consumers.  I guess somebody forgot to tell Packard Bell and the rest of
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>the companies who are too cowardly to stand up to Bill Gates.
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>But I am not to cowardly to stand up to Bill Gates.  He might be the
>master of the dollar, but I am the master of the mind game.  And the
>harder he fights to rob Small Businesses, the American People, and the
>Peoples of the rest of the world of thier right to choose, the harder
>I'm going to fight to give that right back to them.  With your help I
>plan to start a revolution, the likes of which not even Bill Gates 60
>some billion dollars can destroy!  Onto the software community I plan to
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>release the wrath of the GNU generation, and instead of cowering before
>those who seek to destroy me,  I will seek to destroy them.  Now, I'm
>not targeting Microsoft, If they leave me alone and let me advertise
>Linux the way I plan to, then I'll leave them alone, but I am saying
>that I am not afraid to return fire and I cannot be bribed.
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>Now is where you come in.  Don't stop reading now, I'm not going to ask
>for money,  but it is no secret that marketing campaigns cost lots of
>money.  More money than I small business such as myself can afford.  But
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>I have developed a plan.  In the Linux community there are many games
>being developed as internet projects.  So I put together a little group
>that I call the "Flock" to represent a flock of penguins.  I know it's
>corny so just stop laughing and finish reading please. hehe.  Anyhow If
>we as a community can coordinate the production of many games,  games
>that we could sell, and use the money to advertise with. (not all the
>money,  I can't expect anyone to work for free) Then we can kill two
>birds with one stone.  First we can fill the great need Linux has for
>commercial games, both by creating our own and by showing other software
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>companies that there is money to be made in Linux.  Secondly, imagine an
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>ad in a computer game magazine.  A nice full page add with a great game
>and the famous "cool it works with linux" logo.  But some of the ad
>isn't advertising the commercial game,  it is advertising a freeware
>game, a high quality Linux freeware game, not some crappy windows
>freeware game.  This will show people that Linux has great commercial
>apps, but also has equally as great freeware apps.  Now I know what you
>are thinking.  The users are just going to say "I don't have Linux" and
>that is going to be that, right?  Wrong.  because on every ad, we will
>offer them the opportunity to receive the Linux CD for only the $2.99 of
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>shipping costs.  The screen shots from the games will prove that just
>because it (Linux) is free doesn't mean it is crappy. (and just because
>it costs $90 for the upgrade doesn't mean it's good)
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>On the web site I still have the payment method to be an equal
>percentage of the profits to all developers, but realized that with 15
>or so developers we would have to sell a whole lot of copies just to get
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>an ad in a good magazine.  So,  what I would like to do, if it is O.K.
>with the community at large is give the company 50% for marketing and
>divide the other 50% amongst developers.  This is still a fair deal I
>think, and if we create the next Doom, you could get a pretty good chunk
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>of change.  The type of developers we will need are:  Designers,
>Coordinators, Graphic and Sound Artists and of course Programmers.
>Anybody can start a new project and ask for help with it.  And we will
>market it and you will get paid and it will be cool:-)
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>For more info check out http://www.gdos.com and click on the Flock link
>at the bottom, or go straight to http://www.gdos.com/flock.html I
>sincerely hope that you will support me in this endeavor as I am trying
>to help the Linux community and indeed the computing community as a
>whole by once and for all taking control of computing away from the big
>companies and giving it back to the people.  Many of you would consider,
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>have already, or are currently working on freeware projects anyhow, and
>you might as well get paid a little something for your time.  Also any
>projects that are already being worked on are welcome to become part of
>the Flock's product line.  Just email me from the web page and tell me
>about it.
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