[Luna] question

[Patrick Fleming, EA]

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Scott Sawyer wrote:
> So...  What's everyone think of Vista?
> 
> think it will be the killer OS to suck the life out of everything or?
> 
> My take is that we will see in the spring a huge number of customers moving
> to it...  
Especially if the OEMs are in on it. On the flip side we should at least
be allowed to move a retail license to another machine due to their
reworking of the license scheme. This may just be another ploy to keep
the builders complacent but it will likely work.

> What this creates is opportunity to get the Linux story out there
> since if a customer has to change, they might as well look at other
> options.

Some might be willing to change. I would be interested in hearing what
you and others have encountered professionally in the past during new
releases of MS Windows and how that bodes for the upcoming release.
> 
> This said, should LUNA do any activities around the launch to educate
> people
> about other choices and conduct demonstrations for small business owners
> etc?  Excellent opportunity for any consulting folks out there looking to
> target small business in the area.

This would be a great time to do it. We need to start getting
commitments from members to be there :)

> 
> -Scott
> 
> On 11/9/06, Patrick Fleming, EA <pat at rwcinc.net> wrote:
>>
>> I didn't think it was inappropriate. I'm interested in things like this
>> - and most of us still have to use the beast on a daily basis.
>>
>> ssawyer wrote:
>> > Why, did you get lots of hate mail?  I think this is the general
>> > indifference on the list.  Very interesting news, but most of us I
>> think
>> > are watching slashdot etc.
>> >
>> > -Scott
>> >
>> > On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Andrew Roazen wrote:
>> >
>> >> If I offended anyone by posting news and commentary on this list, I
>> >> apologize. Was there something inappropriate in discussing the MS/SuSE
>> >> situation? This seems like pretty big news and room for a lot of
>> debate.
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>> his
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